Heil all,

It gives me great pleasure to announce that we have completed a project that
was started 2 years ago and that is the transcribing of Zoëga's Concise
Dictionary of Old Icelandic into .HTML files at the Northvegr site. Last
night I uploaded the finaly 40 pages and now the dictionary is complete in
.HTML (excepting some of the tables at the end.) I would like to take the
oppurtunity to think all those people who freely and generously contributed
to making this project happen, including the Scandinavian section at UCLA.
Foremost among these was my partner in this project, Tom Wulf. The project
never would have been done this soon without his efforts. You can see a
list of credits on the main page at:
http://www.northvegr.org/zoega/index.html


Some thing of interest to Students of Old Norse.

We now have a search box on the dictionary main index:
http://www.northvegr.org/zoega/index002.html which you can now use Google
to search the dictionary. I am sure this will be a great benefit to those
studying Old Norse, as it will allow English words to be searched as well
the Old Norse words. The last 40 pages have not been crawled by Google yet
but I expect that will happen very soon and then the entire dictionary will
be available for search through Google.


Although I am fairly confident of a 99% accuracy rate that still leaves a
lot of small mistakes in a work of this size. I have begun a second
proofreading and have the first 60 pages done and available for download in
.RTF file format. As I get more pages proofread I'll have them available as
I get them done for download from the main index page. And of course if you
find typos please do let us know so we can make the .HTML more accurate.
You can send notices of typos to northvegr@... .

Although we are done with our first goal we have other goals we will be
working on, that include a CD-ROM version of the dictionary and an e-book
version. No info right now on when those will be ready but I will let the
list know when they are.

regards,

- Alfta "Svanni" Odhinssen
Northvegr: The Northern Way
http://www.northvegr.org