How did you get the google search of the dictionary? I've got an Old
English Dictionary, and would like to do the same.

James
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mariano Mazzeo" <pabloma2002@...>
To: <norse_course@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: [norse_course] Zoëga_Dictionary


> Great job, pals. Congratulations!
>
>
>
> --- Alfta <alfta@...> wrote:
> > Heil all,
> >
> > It gives me great pleasure to announce that we have
> > completed a project that
> > was started 2 years ago and that is the transcribing
> > of Zoëga's Concise
> > Dictionary of Old Icelandic into .HTML files at the
> > Northvegr site. Last
> > night I uploaded the finaly 40 pages and now the
> > dictionary is complete in
> > .HTML (excepting some of the tables at the end.) I
> > would like to take the
> > oppurtunity to think all those people who freely and
> > generously contributed
> > to making this project happen, including the
> > Scandinavian section at UCLA.
> > Foremost among these was my partner in this project,
> > Tom Wulf. The project
> > never would have been done this soon without his
> > efforts. You can see a
> > list of credits on the main page at:
> > http://www.northvegr.org/zoega/index.html
> >
> >
> > Some thing of interest to Students of Old Norse.
> >
> > We now have a search box on the dictionary main
> > index:
> > http://www.northvegr.org/zoega/index002.html which
> > you can now use Google
> > to search the dictionary. I am sure this will be a
> > great benefit to those
> > studying Old Norse, as it will allow English words
> > to be searched as well
> > the Old Norse words. The last 40 pages have not
> > been crawled by Google yet
> > but I expect that will happen very soon and then the
> > entire dictionary will
> > be available for search through Google.
> >
> >
> > Although I am fairly confident of a 99% accuracy
> > rate that still leaves a
> > lot of small mistakes in a work of this size. I
> > have begun a second
> > proofreading and have the first 60 pages done and
> > available for download in
> > .RTF file format. As I get more pages proofread
> > I'll have them available as
> > I get them done for download from the main index
> > page. And of course if you
> > find typos please do let us know so we can make the
> > .HTML more accurate.
> > You can send notices of typos to northvegr@...
> > .
> >
> > Although we are done with our first goal we have
> > other goals we will be
> > working on, that include a CD-ROM version of the
> > dictionary and an e-book
> > version. No info right now on when those will be
> > ready but I will let the
> > list know when they are.
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > - Alfta "Svanni" Odhinssen
> > Northvegr: The Northern Way
> > http://www.northvegr.org
> >
> >
> >
>
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