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By Jan Terje Faarlund

This booklet bargains the 1st account of previous Norse syntax for nearly 100 years and the 1st ever in a non-Scandinavian language. The language of the Vikings and of the previous Icelandic sagas is the simplest documented medieval Germanic language and the writer is ready to current a accomplished research of its syntax and overviews of its phonology and morphology. He helps his analyses with examples taken from Norwegian and Icelandic manuscript variants. Professor Faarlund's process is descriptive, in a generative framework with no less than technical aspect. He incorporates a entire bibliography of previous Norse syntax.

The publication is meant for complex scholars and students of ancient linguistics, Germanic and Scandinavian languages, Norse philology, and all others with a major curiosity in Nordic languages, civilizations, and history.

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