A GRAMMAR OF THE ICELANDIC OROLD NORSE TONGUE -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- RASMUS KRISTIAN RASK HIS LIFE AND WORK -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RASK'S WORKS -- 1. UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS -- 2. SELECTED PUBLISHED WORKS -- 3. TRANSLATIONS AND TEXTUAL EDITIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES -- A NOTE ON THE TRANSLATION -- CORRECTIONS -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Translator's Preface. -- FIRST PART. The System of the Alphabet. -- CHAPTER I. On the forms of the Letters. -- Runes. -- Common Letters. -- CHAPTER II. Of Pronunciation. -- Vowels. -- Consonants. -- Reading. -- The old Pronunciation. -- CHAPTER III. On the change of sound in the old Norse. -- CHAPTER IV. On the transition of words. -- 1. From Old Norse into Swedish. -- 2. From other tongues into Icelandic. -- SECOND PART. The System of Inflection. -- CHAPTER V. Of Substantives. -- 1. Declension without the Article. -- Simpler system. -- More artificial system. -- Simpler Class. -- More artificial Class. -- CHAPTER VI. Of Adjectives. -- 1. The Positive- -- Comparative Degree. -- Superlative Degree. -- CHAPTER VII. Of Pronouns -- NUMERALS. -- CHAPTER VIII. Of Verbs. -- Simpler Class. -- 2nd Class. -- 3rd Class. -- More complex class. -- 1st Class. -- 2nd Class. -- 3rd Class. -- 4th Class. -- 5th Class. -- 6th Class. -- The formation of tenses. -- Of the personal endings. -- Auxiliary Verbs. -- Other kinds of verbs. -- CHAPTER IX. Of the Particles. -- THIRD PART. The Formation of words. -- CHAPTER X. General View. -- CHAPTER XI. Derivation. -- Prefixes. -- Terminations. -- 1. Which form substantives. -- 2. Which form adjectives. -- 3. Which form Adverbs. -- 4. Which form Verbs. -- CHAPTER XII. Composition. -- Composition of Substantives -- Composition of Adjectives. -- Composition of Verbs -- Words commonly used in Composition.

FOURTH PART. Syntax. -- CHAPTER XIII. General view. -- CHAPTER XIV. Syntax of Substantives. -- CHAPTER XV. Syntax of Adjectives. -- CHAPTER XVI. Syntax of Pronouns. -- CHAPTER XVII. Syntax of Verbs. -- CHAPTER XVIII. Particles. -- CHAPTER XIX. Of Ellipses. -- FIFTH PART. Prosody. -- CHAPTER XX. Metres. -- Alliteration. -- Quantity. -- Assonances. -- Rhyme. -- CHAPTER XXI. Of the different kinds of verse. -- Division. -- Narrative Verse. -- Heroic Versc. -- Popular Verse. -- Refrain. -- CHAPTER XXII. Kinds of Poetry. -- CHAPTER XXIII. Modern Poetry. -- SIXTH PART. Of the Dialects. -- CHAPTER XXIV. Historical View. -- CHAPTER XXV. The Oldest and Poetic Dialect. -- CHAPTER XXVI. The modern Tongue. -- EXTRACTS IN PROSE AND VERSE BY WAY OF PRAXIS. -- Gylfaginníng. Ch. 34. P. 33. -- Gylfaginníng. Ch. 49. P. 63. -- Skaldskaparmál. Ch. 35. P. 130. -- Grænlendínga Pátt. Ch. 4. Antiq. Americ. P. 47. -- Porfinns Karlsefnis Saga. Ch. 3. Antiq. Americ. P. 104. -- Víga - Glúms Saga. Ch. VI. -- Hamars Heimt from Sæmund's Edda. -- A Hinar fornu runir -- The series AMSTERDAM CLASSICS IN LINGUISTICS, 1800-1925.