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Dictionaries Zoega's
(Old) Icelandic Dictionary Icelandic dictionaries of Cleasby & Vigfusson, and Zoega (together with works on Gothic, Old English, Old Saxon, Old High German, Old Frisian, etc. at Sean Crist's Indo-European Language Resources) http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/language_resources.html http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/oi_cleasbyvigfusson_about.html#images Johann Fritzner: Ordbog over Det Jormungrund (Old Icelandic poetry, texts, essays, Lexicon
Poeticum, dictionary of kennings) Septentrionalia: The Medieval North (Lexicon Poeticum + texts and grammars) http://www.septentrionalia.net/etexts/index.php Lexicon Poeticum Antiquae Linguae Septentrionalis (Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860) http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=RAwGAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage Lexicon Islandico-Latino-Danicum (Björn Halldórsson, 1814) http://books.google.com/books?id=4xUGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 (Modern) Icelandic Online Dictionary (Sverrir Hólmarsson, J Tucker, C Sanders) http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/IcelOnline/IcelOnline.TEId-idx?id=IcelOnline.IEOrd Orðabókagrunnurin (Faroese dictionaries) http://www.obg.fo ordabok.is (Modern Icelandic dictionary) http://www.ordabok.is Norrœn Dýrð (Russian site): Various Old Norse-Russian dictionaries + Russian translations + Norse texts http://norse.net.ru/ Ordbog over det Norrøna Prosasprog (A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose: bibliography, sources, and other information relating to this ongoing project) http://www.onp.hum.ku.dk English-Old Norse Word List (click on "Linguistic Series") http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/ Otto
Kalkar: Ordbog til det ældre danske sprog (1300-1700) http://www.hist.uib.no/kalkar/ K.F. Söderwall: Ordbok öfver Svenska Medeltids-språket http://spraakdata.gu.se/sdw/ Elof Hellquist: Svensk etymologisk ordbok, 1922 (at Projekt Runeberg) http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/svetym/ Skoldatenätet (Modern Swedish dictionary) http://lexikon.nada.kth.se/sve-eng.shtml Modern Norwegian dictionaries: LEXIN http://decentius.hit.uib.no/lexin.html?dict=nbo-eng-maxi&checked-languages=N&checked-languages=B ; Dokumentasjons Projektet (Bokmål & Nynorsk) http://www.dokpro.uio.no/ordboeker.html Skandinavisk Ordbok (to translate between Danish, Norwegian & Swedish) http://www.nordskol.org/ordbog/ Fish Dictionary http://www.hafro.is/ordabok/ Faroese Wordlist http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~wakefield/faeeng.html ORÐABANKI Íslenskrar málstöðvar (polyglot dictionary, including MnIc.) http://www.ismal.hi.is/ob/ The Translation Centre Dictionary (Modern Icelandic-English-Icelandic) http://www.hugtakasafn.utn.stjr.is/ Modern Icelandic-German http://pauker.at/deutsch/W%F6rterb%FCcher/Isl%E4ndisch.html
Orðabók Háskólans: searchable archive of Old & Modern Icelandic texts http://www.lexis.hi.is/ Index to Fornaldarsögur Norðurlands http://www.heimskringla.no/original/fornaldersagaene/register.php Old Norse Morphological Analyzer (prototype) http://dev.cdh.ucla.edu/~curban/ Concordance to the Proverbs & Proverbial Materials in the Old Icelandic Sagas (Richard Harris) http://www.usask.ca/english/icelanders/index.html Jormungrund
website: Old Icelandic poetry, texts, essays, Lexicon Poeticum, dictionary of
kennings Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middel Ages (database, sample texts) http://www.skaldic.arts.usyd.edu.au/ Oldnorsk ordföjningslære (Georg Frederik Vilhelm Lund, 1862) http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=bS0c4CJQPysC&pg=PA1 Irminsul Ættir On-Line Library (see especially the Glossary (of Norse religion) and Nafnasafnið (a list of Icelandic names used in heathen times)) http://www.irminsul.org/li/li.html Old Norse Name Formation http://hem.passagen.se/peter9/gram/l_namn.html Old Norse Names and their Meaning http://forum.skadi.net/showthread.php?t=10233 Old Norse Names http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ONNames.htm Male Names http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ONMensNames.htm Female Names http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ONWomensNames.htm Modern Icelandic Names http://www.mannanofn.com Arms and Combat in Sagas of Icelanders (concordance of references to these topics) http://www.hurstwic.org/library/arms_in_sagas/index.htm Glossary of Scandinavian origins of placenames in Britain (examples only from Orkney, Shetland and north-east Caithness) http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/freefun/didyouknow/placenames/scandinavianglossary.html Norrøn tid / Norrøn mytologi (Glossaries of names from Scandinavian mythology and history + Heimskringla in Icelandic, English, Norwegian Bokmål & partly Nynorsk) http://lind.no/nor/index.asp?lang=&emne=nor&list=&vis=Snorre Icelandic words for snow (Written in Icelandic) http://visindavefur.hi.is/svar.asp?id=3068 Noreen: "Altisländische und altnorwegische Grammatik", unter Berücksichtigung des Urnordischen http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/oi_noreen_about.html Encoding Old Norse-Icelandic primary sources using TEI-conformant SGML/XML: A handbook (ed. M J Driscoll), Chapter 4 "Abbreviations in Old Norse-Icelandic manuscripts" http://www.staff.hum.ku.dk/mjd/abbreviations.html Mímir Icelandic Reference Grammar http://www.samkoma.com/mimir/mimir.htm Encyclopedia
of Norse & German Heroes Online Resources for the Study of Norwegian http://employees.csbsju.edu/tnichol/norwegian.html Icelandic Alphabet http://www.simnet.is/halfdanh/alphabet.htm Old Norse Net http://www.mun.ca/mst/ONNarchive Reference Grammar (Modern Icelandic Syntax) http://tea.fernuni-hagen.de/Iglo/Install/kurs/body_reference_grammar_46789.htm
Saganet (huge collection of scanned books and manuscripts) Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda (Guðni Jónsson & Bjarni Vilhjálmsson) http://server.fhp.uoregon.edu/norse/ , and complete with index and forwords to the individual volumes http://www.heimskringla.no/original/fornaldersagaene/index.php (The latter site has other texts -- including Heimskringla, sagas and poetry -- not only Old Norse but also in the modern Scandinavian languages.) Fornaldar sögur Norðrlanda (Cark Christian Rafn) http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=hJQrAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1&dq=fornaldars%C3%B6gur&lr=&as_brr=1 Netútgáfan Septentrionalia: The Medieval North (Critical editions in pdf format: Alexanders saga, The Grammatical Treatises, Grágás, Heimskringla, Hómilíubók, Fernir forníslenskur rímnaflokkar (Lokrur, Þrymlur, Griplur, Völsungsrímur), Snorra Edda, Skjaldedigtning, Trojumanna saga hin forna, Völsunga saga, etc.) http://www.septentrionalia.net/etexts/index.php Icelandic Saga database (The Íslendingasögur, Sagas of the Icelanders / Family Sagas, in modernized Icelandic spelling, with the Old Norse versions and translations into English and other languages made available where these exist in the public domain.) http://www.sagadb.org/ The Elder Edda (Old Norse text + parallel English translation) http://www.normannii.org/oldsite/guilds_lore/lore/poetic/index.htm Internet Archive (Icelandic texts, medieval and modern, including Diplomatarium Islandicum, Kölbing's Riddarasögur, Valdimar Ásmundarsson's Íslendinga sögur, Biskupa sögur edited by Jón Sigurðsson et al, and many more.) http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=(language%3Aice%20OR%20language%3A%22Icelandic%22) Various texts in Norse and/or English (Rune Poems, HR Ellis-Davidson's "The Road to Hel") http://www.normannii.org/oldsite/guilds_lore/lore/roadtohel/toc.htm Altakviða með skýringum (Atlakviða with notes in Modern Icelandic) http://www.flensborg.is/sveinn/Skrar/Kv%C3%A6%C3%B0i/Atlakvida.htm#top Flateyjarbók Vo. 1 (eds. Guðbrandr Vigfússon & Carl Rikard Unger, 1860) http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=X6MNAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover Flateyjarbók Vo. 2 (eds. Guðbrandr Vigfússon & Carl Rikard Unger, 1862) http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=e6MNAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover Sturlunga saga eðr Íslendinga saga hin mikla (ed. Bjarni Þorsteinsson 1817-1820) fyrra bindini (vol. 1) http://books.google.com/books?id=ZGgIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover; síðara bindis fyrri deild (vol. 2, part 1), http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=wPsqAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=sturlunga+saga&lr=&as_brr=1; síðara bindinis önnur deild (vol. 2, part 2) http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=wPsqAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA321&vq=deild&dq=sturlunga+saga&lr=&as_brr=1 Biskupa sögur: Fyrsta bindi (eds. Jón Sigurðsson & Guðbrandur Vigfússon, 1858) http://books.google.com/books?id=bKkFAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_summary_r ; http://books.google.com/books?id=dUwCAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_summary_r ; and here is another digitisation with part of the table of contents missing, but with links to the individual chapter headings that are there (because you can't have your cake and eat it) http://books.google.com/books?id=py4PAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#PPR3,M1 Fornmanna sögur, volumes 1-12: Contents (among other things) http://www.usask.ca/english/icelanders/bibliogapp_bibeds.html Saga Ólafs konungs Tryggvasonar: Fyrri deild (Fornmanna sögur, vol. 1) http://books.google.com/books?id=o2kJAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r#PPP7,M1; or if you prefer it with someone's hand caught in the scanner and a bit of a playing card left lying over one page... http://www.google.co.uk/books?lr=&as_brr=1&id=Yd0FAAAAIAAJ&jtp=1 Saga Ólafs konungs Tryggvasonar: Síðari deild (Fornmanna sögur, vol. 2) http://books.google.com/books?id=eHwtAAAAMAAJ&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_summary_r Niðrlag sögu Ólafs konungs Tryggvasonar með tilheyrandi þáttum (Fornmanna sögur, vol. 3) http://books.google.com/books?id=EGEJAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_summary_r Saga Ólafs konungs hins helga: Fyrri deild (Fornmanna sögur, vol. 4) http://books.google.com/books?id=pGMtAAAAMAAJ&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_summary_r Saga Ólafs konungs hins helga: Önnur deild (Fornmanna sögur, vol. 5) http://books.google.com/books?id=-2ItAAAAMAAJ&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_summary_r Sögur Magnúsússar Konúngs góða, Haralds konúngs harðráða ok sona hans (Fornmanna sögur, vol. 6) http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=fb4FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7&lr=&as_brr=1 Sögur Noregs konúnga frá Magnúsi Berfætta til Magnúss Erlíngssonar (Fornmanna sögur, vol. 7) http://books.google.com/books?id=Y1ItAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r#PPP7,M1; and also http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=uCwIAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover Saga Sverris konungs (Fornmanna sögur, vol. 8) http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=tywIAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover Sögur Hákonar Sverissonar, Guttorms Sigurdarsonar, Ínga Bárdarsonar ok Hákonar Hákonarsonar til falls Skúla Hertoga. (Fornmanna sögur, vol. 9) http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=8jYIAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 Saga Hákonar Hákonarsonar frá falli Skúla Hertoga; Brot sögu Magnúss Lagabætis; þættir Hálfdánar svarta, af upphafi ríkis Haralds hárfagra, Hauks Hábrókar ok Ólafs Geirstada-Álfs, Saga Ólafs konúngs Tryggvasonar rituð af Oddi Snorrasyni; Stutt Ágrip af Noregs Konúngasögum ok Noregs konúngatal í ljóðum. (Fornmanna sögur, vol. 10) http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=BmYtAAAAMAAJ&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_summary_r Jómsvíkingasaga ok Knytlínga með tilheyrandi þáttum (Fornmanna sögur, vol. 11) http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=oWUtAAAAMAAJ&printsec=titlepage Ríkisár Noregs og Dana-konúnga; áratal markverðustu viðburða; vísur færðar til rétss máls; registr yfir staðanörn, hluti ok efni og yfir sjaldgæf orð (Fornmanna sögur, vol. 12) http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=aWYtAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover Saga Olafs konungs Tryggvasunar (Old Norse translation from the Latin of Oddr Snorrason, ed. Munch, 1853) http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=TzMPAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1&lr=lang_is&as_brr=1 Fóstbrædra-saga edr Sagan af Þorgeiri Havarssyni og Þormodi Bersasyni Kolbrúnarskalldi (Ed. Gunnlaugur Oddsson, 1822) http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=S2kJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP9&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=0_1#PPP9,M1 and http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=SZSGgn4RByQC&printsec=frontcover#PPP5,M1 Barlaams ok Josaphats saga (eds. Keyser & Unger, 1851) http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=MDAPAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover Stjórn: Gammelnorsk bibelhistorie fra verdens skabelse til det babyloniske fangenskab (Unger, 1862) http://books.google.com/books?id=_GcJAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage Speculum regale. Konungs-skuggsjá. Konge-speilet: Et philosophisk-didaktisk Skrift, forfattet i Norge mod Slutningen af det tolfte Aarhundrede (eds. R. Keyser, P. A. Munch, C. R. Unger, 1848) http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LgtIfLwQgX4C&pg=PP7 Íslenzkir annálar (eds. Erich Christian Werlauff, Peter Frederik Suhm, Abraham Kall, Hálfdan Einarsson, 1847) http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BDcLAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_summary_r A list of some Old Norse books on Google Books http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/norse_course/message/8967 Víglundar saga (2007 e-text edition based on UW-Madison Libraries Special Collections MS 140): http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/IcelOnline/IcelOnline-idx?type=header&id=IcelOnline.VglSagaNVD Edda Sæmundar hins fróða (Möbius, 1860) http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=G2gJAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=s%C3%A6mundar+edda&lr=&as_brr=1 Edda Sæmundar hinns fróða (Rask, 1818) http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=wSLmjpjg49oC&printsec=titlepage&dq=s%C3%A6mundar+edda&lr=&as_brr=1 Cultural Heritage Language Technologies: Old Norse Collection. (1) "Two hands, Ari Jónsson and either Jón or Tómas Arason. Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna (AM 510 4to, ff. 91v-96r), 1550." (2) "Af Upplendinga konungum. Ed. Guðni Jónsson and Bjarni Vilhjálmsson, Reykjavík, 1943-44" http://icarus.umkc.edu/sandbox/saga/index.html Sagas at Skólavefurinn (texts and readings with modern Icelandic pronunciation; NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE) Perseus (Germanic texts including Old Norse sagas and, in Old English, Beowulf) http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection.jsp?collection=Perseus%3Acollection%3AGermanic Norse Mythology: Primary Sources (Elder Edda (Old Norse & Swedish translation) + Snorri's Edda + sagas + poems----including some English translations) http://www.home.no/norron-mytologi/diverse/kilder.htm Old Norse etexts: Elder Edda (Sopus Bugge: Sæmundar Edda, 1867) + others: http://etext.old.no/ Hávamál (Old Norse text + parallel English translation & notes) http://www.beyondweird.com/high-one.html Vafþrúðnismál (analysis word by word) http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/iedocctr/ie-texts/text-on.html The
Titus Project (Click on "text database" in right window for texts
in many old languages, including the Elder Edda) Jormungrund
website: Old Icelandic poetry, texts, essays, lexicon poetucum, dictionary of
kennings Snorra Edda: Formáli & Gylfaginning (texts of the four principle manuscripts) http://www.hi.is/~eybjorn/gg/index.html Snorra Edda (Rask, 1818) http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=BGcJAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=s%C3%A6mundar+edda&lr=&as_brr=1 Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middel Ages (database, sample texts) http://www.skaldic.arts.usyd.edu.au/ Tarrin Wills's Homepage http://www-personal.arts.usyd.edu.au/tarwills/ Morkinskinna http://web.hist.uib.no/bente/tekstar/morkinskinna/mork1.txt Jómsvíkinga saga ok Knýtlinga saga (ed. Bjarni Kolbeinsson) http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC02978003&id=9OtSutSW5uoC (Google Books Library Project). To get to page one of the main text type 13. Knýtlinga saga begins on page 179. Hómilíubók (modern spelling) http://www.lexis.hi.is/ordlyklar/homilia/homil.htm ; http://www.heimskringla.no/islandsk/homiliubok/index.php ; (original manuscript spelling) http://www.septentrionalia.net/etexts/index.php Gunnarsslagr http://www.hi.is/~haukurth/utgafa/gunnarsslagr.html Stafrænt handritasafn (digitised facsimiles) http://am.hi.is/WebView/ MENOTA: Medieval Nordic Texts Archive http://helmer.aksis.uib.no/menota/ Oldnorsk læsebog med tilhörende glossarium (Peter
Andreas Munch Islandsk læsebog med tilhörende ordforklaring (Ludv. Chr. Müller, 1837) http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Z1QEAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage Faroese ballads & art Sjúrðar kvæði (Nordiske oldskrifter XII, Hammershaimb, 1851) http://books.google.com/books?id=Q8wEAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage Færöiske kvæder, Vol. 2 ((Nordiske oldskrifter XX, Hammershaimb, 1855) http://books.google.com/books?id=Q8wEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP15&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=0_2#PPA215,M1 Norrœn Dýrð (Russian site): Russian translations + original texts: http://norse.ulver.com/ Igdrasilas (Articles and Norse texts + Lithuanian translations) http://www.geocities.com/igdrasilas/ Brennu-Njáls saga (published 1875, text from the edition of Konráð Gíslason and Eiríkur Jónsson) http://dp.rastko.net/projects/projectID438a3f4017f9f/projectID438a3f4017f9f_TEI.txt Skáldskaparmál + Brennu-Njáls saga (and others) http://www.hamstur.is/%cdslenska/ -----Or to view former as html: http://www.hamstur.is/%CDslenska/Go%F0afr%E6%F0i/Verkefni/%DEjasi%20og%20I%F0unn.htm Brennu-Njáls saga (Njal's Saga) http://www.thoron.org/skrar/brennu.doc Brennu-Njáls saga (Njal's Saga) http://www.hi.is/~hh/kennsla/tfr2/njala.txt Fornsögur: Vatnsdælasaga, Hallfreðarsaga,
Flóamannasaga (eds. Guðbrandur Vigfússon Bárðarsaga Snæfellsáss, Víglundarsaga, Draumarvitranir, Völsaþáttr (ed. Guðbrandur Vigfússon) http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LGcJAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_summary_r Völsunga saga http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/asatru/volsung.txt Sagan af Hrana hring (=Hrana saga hrings), gefin út af Þorleifi Jónssyni http://www.irlenbusch.de/ta_det/altnordisch/facsimile/hrani_hringr-thorir_hastr.pdf Karlamagnús saga ok kappa hans (ed. Unger, 1860) http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=ubEFAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage Saga Ðiðreks konungs af Bern (ed. Unger, 1853) http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=KWgJAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage Analecta norrœna (Theodor Möbius, 1859 - extracts from Old Norse literature) http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VWgJAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=%22 Völsa þáttr (Old Norse + parallel English translation) http://www.stavacademy.co.uk/mimir/volsithattur.htm Skólavefurinn: Skáld mánaðarins "Poet of the Month" (Icelandic poets and examples of their work, mostly post-medieval, but including Sonatorrek and Höfuðlausn by Egill Skallagrímsson with notes in Modern Icelandic) http://www.skolavefurinn.is/lok/kennarar/grunnskoli/islenska/ljod/ljod_index.htm Icelandic Saga Manuscripts: Hafgeirs saga Flateyings & Þjóstólfs saga Hamramma (Stephanie A. Schlitz) http://facstaff.bloomu.edu/sschlitz/research/tei/sagas/ Íslenzkar Þjóðsögur og Ævintýri (Jón Árnason) http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=-DkLAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage Some
extracts from Jónsbók (an Old Icelandic law code)
http://www.althingi.is/lagas/131b/1281000.400.html Réttarbót Eiríks konungs http://www.althingi.is/lagas/132a/1294027.html Jónsbók: Welfare Section (laws about providing for people not in a position to look after themselves) http://nemendur.ru.is/maria01/Sidur/jonsbok.asp Seyðabrævið (The Sheep Letter: medieval laws relating to sheep rearing in the Faroes) http://laurentius.lub.lu.se/volumes/Mh_15/14.html and http://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sey%C3%B0abr%C3%A6vi%C3%B0 Diplomatarium Norwegicum (searchable database of Old Norwegian diplomas) http://www.dokpro.uio.no/dipl_norv/diplom_felt.html Bergen
University Library, Diplomsamlingen (Norwegian historical diplomas) Folkebøker fra 1500- og 1600-tallet (16th and 17th century Danish chapbooks) http://www.skramstad.no/folkebok/ Jónas Hallgrímsson - Selected Poetry and Prose BRAFI - Óðfræðivefur (Icelandic poetry) http://tgapc05.am.hi.is/bragi/ Saxo Grammaticus: Gesta Danorum http://www.kb.dk/elib/lit/dan/saxo/lat/or.dsr/ Saxo.Grammaticus: The Danish History Books I-IX (trans. Elton) http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/OMACL/DanishHistory/ LRC - Linguistics Research Centre, University of Texas (Indo-European Texts and Translations) http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/index.html
Icelandic Lore: Elder Edda (Bellows); Snorri's Edda (Brodeur); "Old Norse Poems" (Hollander, "the most important non-skaldic verse not included in the Poetic Edda") + various sagas http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/ice/index.htm#eddas Norse Mythology Source Texts: http://www.angelfire.com/on/Wodensharrow/texts.html N Kershaw: Stories and Ballads of the Far Past, Translated from
the Norse, 1921 (Includes English translations of some Danish
and Faroese ballads relating to Hervor's Saga) The Orkneyingers Saga (trans. George Webbe Dasent) http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=aBx_K__w7mMC&printsec=frontcover Northvegr:
growing collection of old Germanic (especially Norse) texts, translations and
language resources Annotated Völuspá http://library.flawlesslogic.com/voluspa.htm In Parentheses (sagas mainly translated by Magnusson & Morris) http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/ Ambáles saga (an Icelandic saga of Hamlet, extracts) http://phoenixandturtle.net/excerptmill/ambales.htm Le saga de Njal (Rodolphe Dareste, 1896) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/19440 ; http://www.sagadb.org/brennu-njals_saga Thidrek's Saga / Þiðdreks saga af Bern (in Japanese) http://www.runsten.info/saga/thidriks/index.htm Germanische Glaubens-Gemeinschaft (including a German translation of Snorri's Edda) http://www.germanische-glaubens-gemeinschaft.de/ http://www.beepworld.de/members62/allsherjargode/index.htm
K.F. Söderwall "Ordbok öfver Svenska Medeltids-språket" http://spraakdata.gu.se/sdw/ Svensk Akademiens Ordbok http://g3.spraakdata.gu.se/saob/ Skoldatenätet (Modern Swedish dictionary) http://lexikon.nada.kth.se/sve-eng.shtml "Altschwedische Grammatik, mit Einschluss des Altgutnischen", by Adolf Noreen, 1904 (Scanned images of pages) http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/oswed_noreen_about.html#images Fornsvenska Textbanken http://www.nordlund.lu.se/Fornsvenska/Fsv%20Folder/ Projekt Bergman (Various Old Swedish documents) http://www.abc.se/~m225/lig/bilagor.html Östgötalagen med förklaringar http://runeberg.org/oglfreud/ Västgötalagen (parts also translated into modern Swedish) http://hem.passagen.se/peter9/lag/vgretl.html Codex iuris vestrogotici: Westgöta-Lagen (Collin & Schlyter, 1827) http://books.google.com/books?id=aZgyAAAAIAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=editions:05VFRSSnJBX2k4sx#PPP7 West Gautish & Old Swedish + introduction to Old Norse in
general, guide to Norse name formation, etc. The Rök Stone Inscription (transcription, West Norse & Old Swedish transliterations, English translation) http://home.earthlink.net/~norsemyths/wildhunt/rokstone.html Gutasaga (Saga of the Gotlanders) http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/gutasaga/ ; English translation www.oe.eclipse.co.uk/nom/Gutasaga.html ; Modern Swedish translation http://www.gute.nu/Gutasagan.asp ; incomplete parallel Old Gutnish & Modern Swedish text http://www.frauenwissen.at/gutasaga.php Gutalag (The Gotland Lawcode), in Modern Swedish translation http://www.gotlandshistoria.com/historia/gutalagen.htm (For the original, see Fornsvenska Textbanken ) Gutalag (The Gotland Lawcode) in Russian translation http://www.vostlit.info/Texts/Dokumenty/Skandinav/Sweden/Gutalag/text.htm
LEXIKON ÖVER URNORDISKA PERSONNAMN Old Norse Online (the final section offers an introduction to the morphology and syntax of the earliest Scandinavian inscriptions, classed by the authors as Northwest Germanic) http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/eieol/norol-TC-X.html Theudiskon Project: discussion relating to reconstructing early Germanic languages http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Theudiskon
Arild Hauge (big, detailed site in Norwegian & English, descriptions + photos) http://www.arild-hauge.com; (pictures) http://home.no.net/ahruner/index.htm Samnordisk runtextdatabas http://web.telia.com/~u13403587/rundata/pc/pc.htm Concordance to the Runic Database http://www.engebretsen.se/run-konk/index.html Christer Hamp: Gamla runinskrifter (Swedish runic inscriptions with photos, tansliteration and translation into Modern Swedish) http://www.christerhamp.se/runor/gamla/index.html#u251 Runenprojekt Kiel (database of inscriptions in the Eldar Futhark) http://www.runenprojekt.uni-kiel.de Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (see "databaser") http://www.sofi.se An English Dictionary of Inscriptions in the Younger Futhark http://runicdictionary.nottingham.ac.uk/index.php Runic Inscriptions from Bryggen in Bergen (database) http://www.nb.no/baser/runer/eindex.html JH Looijenga: "Runes around the North Sea and on the Continent AD 150-700" http://irs.ub.rug.nl/ppn/163895791 Old Norse Online (the final section offers an introduction to the morphology and syntax of the earliest Scandinavian inscriptions) http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/eieol/norol-TC-X.html "Sverges runinskrifter" by Erik Brate, 1922 http://www.runor.se Yves Kodratoff: Useful collection of runic inscriptions in Primitive Norse and Viking Norse, ordered chronologically + interpretations of Krause, Moltke & Antonsen http://www.nordic-life.org/nmh/runic.htm Svenska Runstenar och Runinskrifter (Swedish runestones & runic inscriptions) http://hemsidor.torget.se/users/r/runor/ Västra Götalands runstenar (Runestones of Västergötland, Sweden) http://w1.501.telia.com/~u50102110/ The Rök Stone Inscription (transcription, West Norse & Old Swedish transliterations, English translation) http://home.earthlink.net/~norsemyths/wildhunt/rokstone.html Svensk Runristningsförteckningen (Jan Owe, Stockholm, 2000) http://hemsidor.torget.se/users/j/jaow/runrfort16.pdf Robert Nedoma: Runenschrift u. Runenschriften (introduction to runes, in German) http://www.univie.ac.at/skandinavistik/runen/index.html Luzius Thöny: Die skandinavischen Runeninschriften der Britischen Inseln http://www.doink.ch/downloads/runen.pdf Comparative Table of Runes + Gothic Alphabet http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/didact/idg/germ/runennam.htm Illerup Ådal (archeology of Illerup, including illustrations of runic inscriptions) http://www.illerup.dk/ Runsten (Japanese) http://www.runsten.info/ Runes & Futharks http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Village/7780/runicinscript.html The origin of the Runes http://old.no/runes/origin.pdf
Norse Course Homepage http://www.hi.is/~haukurth/norse/ Norse Course: Yahoo discussion group for students of Old Norse http://groups.yahoo.com/group/norse_course Old Norse Online (Todd B. Krause and Jonathan Slocum; 10 lessons + grammar + runes) http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/eieol/norol-TC-X.html (Old Norse Online) Bibliography http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/eieol/norol-E.html Learning Old Norse: Some Suggestions (links and book recommendations) http://has55.www9.50megs.com/OldIcel/LearningOldNorse.html Old Icelandic Course Materials (Tarrin Wills: referrence grammar + texts: Iðunn and Skaði, Þrymskviða + vocabulary) http://teaching.arts.usyd.edu.au/english/2000/icel/ Cours d'Islandais Ancien (French introduction to Old Icelandic, with grammar & parallel Norse/French texts) http://anamnese.online.fr/islensk/ Materialien und Erläuterungen zur Grammatik des Altisländischen (Einführung in die altisländische Sprache, Hartmut Röhn) http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/bragi/b4/b4fornislenskukver_de_hr.pdf Ludwig Ettmüller: Altnordisches Lesebuch nebst kurzgefasster
Formenlehre und wörterbuch Old Icelandic (background materials for course taught by Helgi Skúli Kjartansson) http://starfsfolk.khi.is/helgisk/course_home_page.htm Henry Sweet "Icelandic Primer" http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5424 A Short Practical and Easy Method of Learning the Old Norsk Tongue or Icelandic Language, after the Danish of E Rask (with an Icelandic Reader, and account of the NOrsk poetry and the sagas, and a Modern Icelandic vocabulary for travellers by H Lund; 2nd corrected ed. 1869) http://runeberg.org/oldnorsk/ Icelandic Online (course in Modern Icelandic) http://www.icelandic.hi.is/ Reference Grammar (Modern Icelandic Syntax) http://tea.fernuni-hagen.de/Iglo/Install/kurs/body_reference_grammar_46789.htm Islandsk: Icelandic course materials and learning resources, in Norwegian http://islandsk.no/index.html Íslenska (website of a German magazine for learners of modern Icelandic; site has links and forums) http://www.islenska.de/index.htm Communicative Icelandic http://www.skrudda.org/Icelandic/demo.html An Icelandic Minigrammar (Modern Icelandic) http://www.hum.uit.no/a/svenonius/lingua/flow/li/minig/enmini_is.html Mentalcode Icelandic (introduction to Modern Icelandic + information on how to type Icelandic characters on computers) http://www.mentalcode.com/nl/islenska/index.page
Old Norse Name Formation http://hem.passagen.se/peter9/gram/l_namn.html Tarrin Wills's Homepage http://www-personal.arts.usyd.edu.au/tarwills/ Alvíssmál: Forschung zur mittelalterlichen Kultur Skandinaviens (online journal with articles & reviews in English & German) http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~alvismal/Welcome.html "The Fantastic in Old Norse / Icelandic Literature" + "Sagas and the British Isles, especially Northumbria" (Proceesings of the 13th International Saga Conference, Durham 2006) http://www.dur.ac.uk/medieval.www/sagaconf/sagapps.htm "Old Norse Myths, Literature & Society" (Proceedings of the 11th International Saga Conference, Sydney 2000) http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/medieval/saga.html Sagas & Societies: International Conference at Borgarnes Iceland http://w210.ub.uni-tuebingen.de/portal/sagas/ Arkiv for nordisk filologi http://runeberg.org/anf/ Um r og ur í niðurlagi orða og orðstofna í Íslenzku (Jón Þorkelsson, 1863) http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=EAFAAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover Heimasíða Eiríks Rögnvaldssonar (articles on Icelandic grammar) http://www.hi.is/~eirikur/ Ísmús - Icelandic Music Archive: the earliest recordings of Icelandic folk music http://ismus.musik.is/ "Kvæðaskapur: Icelandic Epic Song" by Hreinn
Steingrímsson (a book about Icelandic folk-singing)
http://music.calarts.edu/KVAEDASKAPUR/main.html Viking Answer Lady: articles on life in the Viking Age http://www.vikinganswerlady.com Weapon names http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/showfinal.cgi/2871.txt Orð vikunnar ("word of the week"--history and usage of Icelandic words): http://www.lexis.hi.is/ordvikunnar/ordvikanna.html Fornar sagnir (notes on Gísla saga, Kjalnesinga saga, Eiríks saga rauða, Grænlendinga saga) http://islenska.khi.is/baldurh/fornar_sagnir.htm Virtually Virtual Iceland http://www.simnet.is/gardarj/gardar1.htm Time & Travel in Old Norse Society http://www.raunvis.hi.is/~thv/t_t.html Primstav (Norse traditional calendars) http://www.digitalkunst.com/NewFiles/primstav.html Algorismus (article in Icelandic on the Old Norse mathematical treatise) http://netla.khi.is/greinar/2004/001/ The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf: A Contribution To The History Of Saga Development In England And The Scandinavian Countries (Oscar Ludvig Olson; trans. Richard Francis Burton) http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/4/8/7/14878/14878-8.htm Carl Olsen: The Disruptive Other in Völundarkviða http://www.geocities.com/carlolsen78/volundarkvida.html "The Norwegian Viking Swords" by Jan Petersen (1919) http://www.vikingsword.com/petersen/ University of Cambridge: Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic (see Resources) http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/ The Viking Society for Northern Research http://www.shef.ac.uk/viking-society/ Hið ískenska bókmenntafélag http://www.hib.is
Kiyo's Norse Links http://www.home.ix.netcom.com/~kyamazak/index.html University of Freiburg, Norse links http://www.ub.uni-freiburg.de/portale/germ/50/S10/no-volltexte.html More links from the Stofnun Sigurðar Nordals http://www.nordals.hi.is/ens/links.html Veturliði Óskarsson's site (with some good Norse links) http://starfsfolk.khi.is/veturosk/griplur.htm |