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Their alphabet coniifts o f the fame
letters as ours, except the (th), which
qharaCter w e have loft, together with
the pronunciation ; the Englifti have
yet preferved it, though foreigners
find it difficult to pronounce.
We have an Icelandic grammar o f
Runolph Jonfon, printed in quarto at
Copenhagen in 1 651: it was alfo printed
in Hickefii Elementa liguarum
feptentrionalium, Oxford i688, and
again; in his Thefaurus, Oxford 1703.
But the manufcript o f Jonas Magnu-
fensfo Grammatica lilandica, in your
pofteilion, for, is more complete, and
deferves to be publiflied, as likewife
Eggert p ifen’s Orthographia lilandica.
The moft antient Icelandic
diCIionary we have is the. Wormii
Specinien Lexici Runici, compiled by
Magnus Olafsen, and was publiffied
m folio, at Copenhagen, in 1 650.
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Afterwards Gudmimdi Andreae Lex*
icon Iflandicum was publiffied by
Refenius at Copenhagen, in quarto,
in the year r 683. This was followed
by Verelii Index linguae vet. Scyto-
Scandicae, that Rudbeck caufed to
be printed in folio, at Upfal, 1691,
and by two Lexica Latina lilandica,
both publiQied in quarto at Copenhagen,
the one in 1734, and the other
in 1738 ; to theie Rugman’s Monoiyl-
laba lilandica Lat. Explicata, Upfala,
1676, in oCIavo, may be added. In
the library at Upfal was a copy o f a
manufcript Lexicon lil. Lat. which I
have brought with me from Iceland.
In the Antiquity Archives is likewife
a very ample work o f Gudmundr
Olafsen, that has been augmented
and reduced to order by Mr. AiTeifor
Gagnerus, but however moft probably
will never be printed for want
of a publiflier. It is to be lamented
that Runolph Jonfon was never able
to publiili his Lexicon Iflandicum,
though a privilege was granted him
for that purpofe in IVIay 1 650: w'e may
however foon exped to have fomething
M 2 . more
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