Thanks, Brian.

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From: norse_course@yahoogroups.com [mailto:norse_course@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Brian M. Scott
Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 12:27 PM
To: Fred & Grace Hatton
Subject: Re: [norse_course] For beginners

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



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