Icelandic-English/English-Icelandic Concise Dictionary

By Arnold R. Taylor

Book Overview

Perfect for students or travelers, this dictionary has over 10,000 entries in a concise and easy-to-use format. Gender of Icelandic nouns are given and lists of English irregular plurals and verbs are... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870528017
• ISBN13: 9780870528019
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Hippocrene Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 3.9" x 5.9"

Customer Reviews

Pretty good.

I don't know the background of the nay-sayers of this little gem, but it's a pocket-style dictionary. DUH! Anybody who's used pocket-dictionaries knows that they are limited in capacity. Me, I use this to look up the English - Icelandic and then go over to Zoega's to look up the Old Norse version of the modern Icelandic. It usually gets me in the ballpark. I am self-teaching Old Norse so I can create more accurate "Rune" stones for SCA awards for Norse personas. While my Old Norse isn't perfect, it's gotten a lot better with this nice, POCKET sized dictionary.

What are they talking about

The demand for Icelandic dictionaries is pretty small. Because of this, you will have to pay 60 dollars or more for a great or out-of-print edition. The hippocrene version is not a great dictionary by any stretch of the imagination, however, it retails for around 10 dollars. If you are serious about learning Icelandic, you will need a dictionary. Pick this one up and use the glossaries from you other books (such as Teach Yourself Icelandic, Colloquial Icelandic, Icleandic, etc...) to supplement what this edition leaves out. The other reviewers seem to have alot of money, which explains their disdain for this cheap edition and absurdly expensive recommendations. Which one would you choose: a brand new $10 dictionary or a $60+ out-of-print dictionary. Just be sure to check Half Price Books and other used bookstores to see if they happen to have any large college or complete Icelandic dictionaries in stock.

Very good dictionary

This dictionary looks rather small, but it actually has a large amount of words in it. Its too bad that they didn't explain some of the grammatical aspects. All in all, this book is well worth it if you want to study Icelandic.