Old Norse Unit 2, Lesson 2: Continued Reading Practice

Using an excerpt about Odin from Ynglinga saga as an example, this video offers a walk-through of the process of reading texts in Old Norse. Dr. Jackson Crawford is an Old Norse specialist who teaches in the Department of Scandinavian at the University of California, Berkeley (formerly at UCLA), and is credited in Disney’s Frozen. His new, contemporary translation of the Poetic Edda—the most important source for the stories of the Norse gods and heroes—is available at Support Jackson Crawford’s educational videos about Old Norse language and myth on Patreon at and get exclusive bonus content including translation requests, rune fonts, and previews of upcoming publications. Learn the Old Norse language with this step-by-step video series: Popular videos: What’s the difference between Old Norse and Modern Icelandic?: How do we know what a dead language sounded like?: How to pronounce Old Norse (part of the Old Norse lesson series): Why are Norse and Viking names spelled so inconsistently?: Hávamál (an Old Norse wisdom poem attributed to Odin): Who is Loki? A two-minute introduction: Introduction to the Indo-European languages: Introduction to Old Norse (from the Old Norse lesson series): How nouns work in Old Norse (from the Old Norse lesson series): Viking names (from the Old Norse lesson series): Writing Old Norse in runes: