I got those tiffs fine but the scan looks to be of poor quality unless I'm
doing something wrong. Say it ain't so! It is mostly illegible to me.

-Craig

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Haukur Thorgeirsson [mailto:haukurth@...]
> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 2:57 PM
> To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [norse_course] Zoega's Dictionary - Project Proposal
>
>
> I agree that having an ON dictionary publicly available
> on the web would be a great aid for undertakings such
> as this course.
>
>
> >What I was thinking is that each person could take a letter. Like one
> >person do all the words beginning with "a" and another person do all
> >the words beginning with "b" and so on.
>
> Good idea. With enough people this would be a non-insane method.
>
>
>
> >If we could get several people working on it like that, either
> typing it or
> >proofreading OCR scans, we could knock out in pretty quick and
> I'll post it
> >at my site as it get's done along with an index to make it
> easier to find the
> >words.
>
> Those of us who know the language could, perhaps, best serve as final
> proofreaders. We can spot errors much more easily than others (because
> we only need to read the text, not to compare it with the original).
>
> For an example here is the first chapter of Sir William's "Easy Readings
> in Old Icelandic" which you have put up on your Miðnoetrsól website:
>
> Gangleri hóf svá mál sitt: "Hverr er œztr eða elztr allra goða?"
> Hár segir:
> "Sá heitir Allfáðr at váru máli, en í Ásgarði hinum forna átti
> hann tólf náfn.
> " Þá spyrr Gangleri: "Hvar er sá guð? eða hvat má hann? eða hvat
> hefir hann
> unnit framaverka?" Hár segir: "Lifir hann of allar aldir, ok stjórnar öllu
> ríki
> sínu, ok ræðr öllum hlutum, stórum ok smám." Þá mælti Jafnhár: "Hann
> smíðaði himin ok jörð ok loptin ok all eign þeirra." Þá mælti
> Þriði: "Hitt
> er mest, er hann gørði manninn ok gaf honum önd þá, er lifa skal
> ok aldri
> týnask, þótt líkaminn fúni at moldu eða brenni at ösku; ok skulu
> allir menn
> lifa, þeir er rétt eru siðaðir, ok vera með honum sjálfum, þar sem heitir
> Gimli
> eða Vingólf. En vándir menn fara til Heljar, ok þaðan í Niflhel; þat er
> niðr í
> hinn níunda heim." Þá mælti Gangleri: "Hvat hafðisk hann áðr at,
> en himinn
> ok jörð væri gör?" Þá svarar Hár: "Þá var hann með Hrímþursum."
>
> I quickly spot those errors:
>
> Allfáðr -> Alföðr
> náfn -> nöfn
> ok all eign -> ok alla eign
>
> There also seem to be inconsistancies in the spelling, some forms
> are modern
> others are old - but this may have been so in Craigie's original.
>
>
> >I could convert the tiff's to .gif files so no one would have a
> >problem viewing the graphics.
>
> That would be great as I've still not managed to view the .tiff files.
>
>
> >What do you think? Óskar? Haukur? My fellow students?
>
> Volunteers please form a line:)
>
> Haukur
>
>
>
> Sumir hafa kvæði...
> ...aðrir spakmæli.
>
> - Keth
>
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