Old Norse grammar – on a single page!
It seems impossible: the fundamentals of Old Norse grammar on one sheet of A4 paper. But that’s what Alaric Hall of the University of Leeds has produced in the form of his ‘magic sheet’ of basic paradigms!1 It’s an ideal supplement and reference aid to one of the standard grammar books, and I’m going to be using it (with Alaric’s permission) in my introductory classes this autumn.
Alaric makes this resource available freely, and he says he’d be delighted for anybody to download it, print it, and share it. He’d appreciate it if you’d drop him a line though to let him know if you choose to use it, though.
(Oh, and he apologises that he couldn’t fit the ‘middle’ verbal voice on the sheet: he might produce a second page at a later date…)
Anything that makes Old Norse grammar more user-friendly (which is where Michael Barnes’s generally excellent introduction falls down, in my opinion) is much to be welcomed. Thanks to Alaric for sharing it with us.
- Inspired by Peter Baker’s ‘magic sheet’ for Old English grammar ↩
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Still no middles on the sheet, I’m afraid, but it does now have a b-side for those who want it: a one-page introduction to the terminology used on the a-side!
Any comments, on either the a-side or the b-side, welcome
Could you please make side “a” in a smaller font to allow you to get the middle voice in? (I would also suggest making side “b” in a smaller font to add explanations of the related terminology for verbs’ voice).
Anyone finding that this made the document’s type rather small need only view it as a PDF file (the form it is supplied in) rather than printing it out — because PDFs allow enlarging/reducing the document on screen. (Most people who read grammar-help sheets, after all, study only one small part of the sheet at a time. Enlarging a PDF on screen, so that one sees only a small portion at a time, is in fact an aid to concentration: one does not [e.g.] have to look at verb conjugations while trying to memorize noun declensions.)