Definition of Old icelandic

1. Noun. The extinct dialect of Old Norse that was spoken in Iceland up until about 1600.

Generic synonyms: Old Norse

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

Old English sheepdog
Old Etonian
Old Faithful
Old Father Thames
Old Father Time
Old Frankish
Old French
Old Frisian
Old Georgian
Old Glory
Old Greek
Old Harry
Old Hickory
Old High German
Old IRA
Old Icelandic
Old Ionian
Old Ionic
Old Irish
Old Ironsides
Old Italian
Old Japanese
Old Javanese
Old Korean
Old Latin
Old Line State
Old London Town
Old Low Franconian
Old Maid
Old Marlburian

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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