I have a paper back version now, of Zoega and find it indispensable, I take pleasure in your observation that it is less likely to "sink your longship", to keep to this metaphor I confess my longship is lying rather low in the water at present, how useful are all those links, I shall have to try them.
Frith
Patricia
----- Original Message -----
From: llama_nom
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 2:12 PM
Subject: [norse_course] Re: dictionary comparison: Cleasby vs. Zoëga



>   in Frith Patricia
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     From: chicanechagrin
>     To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
>     Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 2:15 AM

>     Is it useful to use both dictionaries, since I read that
Zoëga's
>     dictionary is an abridgement of Cleasby's dictionary. Did
Zoëga add
>     anything new or different to his dictionary?



One advantage to Zoega is that it distinguishes certain vowels --
<æ> from <oe>, and <ø> from <ö> -- which later fell together.

One very minor trouble is that it is sometimes a little inconsistent
in ordering letters.  Usually, short vowels come before the
corresponding long vowels, but I've occasionally met pages where no
separation is made.  Not a huge problem though.

One boon: Zoega is less likely to sink your longship.

Llama Nom

PS. Some Norse dictionaries online:

http://www.northvegr.org/zoega/index002.php?
PHPSESSID=2bc83bc631bdf9aac06c4039ba979f8b
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/language_resources.html
http://www.koeblergerhard.de/publikat.html
http://www.dok.hf.uio.no/perl/search/search.cgi?appid=86&tabid=1275









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