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Definition of Old Icelandic
1. Noun. The extinct dialect of Old Norse that was spoken in Iceland up until about 1600.
Definition of Old Icelandic
1. Proper noun. The Old Norse language as spoken and written in Iceland in the Middle Ages, quite similar to Old Norwegian, but differing most markedly in orthography and, to a lesser extent, in phonology. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Old Icelandic
Literary usage of Old Icelandic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"At this time archaic tendencies, Koing back to the Old Icelandic of the 13th and
... Westland dialect has, for example, preserved the Old Icelandic long a, ..."
2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"Contrasted with Old Swedish and Old Danish, whose earliest documentary remains
date from 1281 and 1329 respectively, Old Icelandic possesses, as a whole, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"As in Old Icelandic so in Old Norwegian wo do not find tho most primitivo forms
in tho oldest MSS. that havo como down to us ; for that purpose wo must ..."
4. Origines Islandicae: A Collection of the More Important Sagas and Other by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (1905)
"The year 1238 sounded the death-knell of the old Icelandic commonwealth.
The Flatey-book entering sub вяло gives pithy utterance to this: 'The All-moot ..."
5. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond, William Abbatt (1880)
"And yet, from that sterile point of view they will always miss all that is most
attractive and really charming in old Icelandic literature. ..."
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