At 8:52:00 AM on Saturday, June 22, 2013, Fred & Grace Hatton wrote:

> I have a good background in German - having lived there 9
> years and having attended the (now) Darmstadt University
> (then TH Darmstadt) as a German Lit. major - so that
> helped a lot.

In that case you might to know that at

<http://emedien.ub.uni-greifswald.de/ebooks/altnord-wb/baetke_digital.pdf>

you can fill out a very brief form with your address and
e-mail, confirm ‘dass Sie die heruntergeladene Datei nicht
an Dritte weitergeben’, and freely download a 77 MB complete
digital facsimile of the first edition (1965-8) of Walter
Baetke’s _Wörterbuch zur altnordischen Prosaliteratur_. I
only just found it, and I already like it. For instance, it
has an entry for <fyrirboðsmenn>, which we did not find in
any of the usual dictionaries:

*fyrir-boðsmenn* m.pl. vom Hausherrn (zu e. Hochzeit od.
e. Gelage) besonders geladene (u. vor dem Hauptgast
anwesende (Gäste)

Brian