On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 02:00:19PM -0000, rags123us wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I don't know if this question has come up before but I didn't
> search :-)
>
> Are there any good dictionaries for ON **in print**?
> Cleasby/Vigfusson and Zoega are out of print and are terribly
> expensive to purchase from online antiquarian bookshops. In fact I
> couldn't find online even a used copy of Cleasby. The only
> consolation is that there is an electronic Zoega project in progress,
> which will make available the pages from the dictionary online.

This is a very frequently asked question. Unless things have changed recently,
there are no ON to english dictionaries in print, and no english to ON
dictionaries at all. Moreover, what dictionaries I've found for modern
Icelandic to and from English have seemed small and limited.

On the other hand, the complete Zoega is available on line. The ongoing
project is simply converting it from gifs to html. (Given the likelihood
of transcription errors in that process, I'm glad they are also keeping
the gifs available.)

> How's de Vries' "Alnordisches Etymologisches Woerterbuch"? I read the
> publisher EJ Brill's comments on it as "German, Texts in Norwegian".

That I can't help with. I really need to learn to read German.

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Arlie

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