RASK, RASMUS.

Kortfattet Vejledning til det oldnordiske eller gamle islandske Sprog.

København, Reitzel og v. Maack, 1832.

8vo. Bound uncut in the original blue wrappers in a recent blue cardboard binding with leather titel label to spine (Signed Ole Olsen, 1980). Previous owner's name (Wilhelm Flensburg) to front wrapper. Neat light marginal pencil annotations thorughout in contemporary hand. Wrappers with light wear, internally nice. (4), 76 pp.


First edition of Rask's short introduction to Old Norse.

Rasmus Rask is one of the absolutely most prominent and famous Danish philologers and is very well esteemed worldwide. He was the first to systematically study the ancient Nordic languages and is the discoverer of the relations between the consonants in the Indo-European languages. This discovery served as the foundation of the rules Jacob Grimm later formulated, underlying the Germanic and High-German soundshifts. In PMM Rask is yielded as "one of the founders of the modern science of language." (PMM 266).

Hjelmslev I, 197.

Order-nr.: 62967

DKK 1.800,00