Greetings,
this deck is one I have made for the sake of helping my learning of Old Norse as I am being taught at the Centre of Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. I am including most of the vocabulary encountered so far in the readings that are given to us; those are mainly issued from the book "Introduction to Old Norse" by Gordon. In light of that, I have decided in order to help my studies to make those double-sided cards, since I believe that doing Old Norse to English AND English to Old Norse helps for the retention of information (anyone is free to disagree).
Here are a few information concerning the deck and its abbreviations.
Nouns in Old Norse are, normally, given with the three following forms: nominative singular, genitive singular and nominative plural. When the dative singular is noteworthy it is also included in the Old Norse entry.
The translation side includes the gender of the noun, its translation(s) and, when possible, its root-stem. This last one is included since I have found it often useful to decline the noun. It also helps with other germanic languages, namely Old English.
Abbreviations for nouns are as follow: nom. (nominative), acc. (accusative), gen. (genitive), dat. (dative), sing. (singular), pl. (plural), n.n. (noun neuter), n.m. (noun masculine), n.f. (noun feminine).
Adjectives are normally given with the three nominative singular forms. When available, the comparative and superlative forms are included, in the nominative masculine singular.
Abbreviations for adjectives are as follow: adj. (adjective), comp. (comparative), sup. (superlative)
Verbs are normally included in five forms: infinitive, 3rd person singular present active indicative, 3rd person singular preterite active indicative, 3rd person plural preterite active indicative and past participle. I have decided to go with the 3rd persons instead of the first (as in Zoëga), because they seem to be more often encountered in literature. On the other side, I have given the translation(s), as well as whether the verb is strong (str.) or weak (wk.) and its class. For weak verbs class I, I have included whether the stem is short (S) or long (L).
Abbreviations for verbs are as follow: v. (verb), str. (strong), wk. (weak), S (short), L (long)
Other types of words and phrases included are prep. (prepositions), adv. (adverbs) or prepositional groups of words (ex. þá er).
For the sake of making this deck, I have mainly used the glossary included in Gordon, as well as the Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, by Zoëga. The first source is the main one used, since the dictionary often has too many definitions for certain words (c.f. the verb taka). To supplement the cards or add the main translations, the Wiktionary has also been used; it proved to be a primordial tool for the germanic philologist, who I am not, to find the stems of the nouns.
This should include the main details of this deck. Feel free to leave a question or comment.
I hope you will appreciate the challenge and difficulty of Old Norse as much as I do.
P.S.: An Old English deck has also been made, whose link I shall include:
https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/423807113.
1.3 Edition updated on 2020-10-14
In this edit, I split the fields of the cards into many subsections, as suggested by a commentator. This should make it easier to search for a given information.