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Cleasby and Vigfusson's An Icelandic-English Dictionary of Old Icelandic (Old Norse)
The first indexed and browsable edition of this expensive and rare dictionary is now available to you only from the Northvegr Foundation! The dictionary is available in easy to browse JPG graphic files in its entirety. We are currently working on transcribing this dictionary into searchable HTML and RTF text files. If you would like to help us with the Cleasby-Vigfusson Project, see below. CreditsThe following people have generously donated their time and effort to make it possible for us to bring this dictionary to you. The American-Scandinavian Foundation - Scanning and preparation of the source page images was made possible by a grant from the American-Scandivanian Foundation. Many thanks to the American-Scandivanian Foundation for their generous support for this project. Rebecca Kuipers - Spring 2003: scanned the entire text, cropped the images and fixed the rotation, and corrected the OCR-ed page headers at the top of each page which appear in the page list. Sean Crist - The source images for the JPG files you see here were obtained from Sean's Germanic Lexicon Project web site. Alfta Lothursdottir - Processed and converted the original TIFF graphic files into JPG graphic files and coded the indexed web pages. Want to Help Make the Cleasby-Vigfusson
Dictionary Available In Text Format to the Internet Viewing Public?
The Cleasby-Vigfusson ProjectThe Northvegr Foundation is now organizing a project to proofread the HTML texts of for An Icelandic-English Dictionary, by Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson, which was published in 1874. It is the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary on Old Icelandic in English. Their goal is to have the complete dictionary transcribed into HTML and RTF text files by the end of 2005. They are in need of transcribers who can work with Old Icelandic characters as well as Greek. If you want to help with the Cleasby-Vigfusson Project contact them at info@northvegr.org. Enter The Dictionary© 2005 Alfaleith.org. Alfaleith™ is a service mark and trademark of Alfaleith.org. • Web site design by Golden Boar Creations. |
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