--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "chicanechagrin"
<chicanechagrin@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the explanation and the links.
>
> If Zoega is less likely to sink my long ship, what makes the
Cleasby
> Dictionary more likely to sink my long ship? :-)



Mass.






> > One advantage to Zoega is that it distinguishes certain vowels --

> > <æ> from <oe>, and <ø> from <ö> -- which later fell together.
> >
> > One very minor trouble is that it is sometimes a little
> inconsistent
> > in ordering letters. Usually, short vowels come before the
> > corresponding long vowels, but I've occasionally met pages where
no
> > separation is made. Not a huge problem though.
> >
> > One boon: Zoega is less likely to sink your longship.
> >
> > Llama Nom
> >
> > PS. Some Norse dictionaries online:
> >
> > http://www.northvegr.org/zoega/index002.php?
> > PHPSESSID=2bc83bc631bdf9aac06c4039ba979f8b
> >
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/language_resources.html
> > http://www.koeblergerhard.de/publikat.html
> > http://www.dok.hf.uio.no/perl/search/search.cgi?
appid=86&tabid=1275