In the Norse Course lessons, they used separate letters, oe, for the
oe-ligature, which gets around the problem of typing the non-
standard character, and also avoids potential confusion caused by
the fact that the oe-ligature and the ae-ligature are very hard to
tell apart when written in italics. Typing in Word, you may be able
to get the oe-ligature by going to Insert menu > Symbol. Whether
you can find it there depends on what font you're using, e.g. Times
New Roman.
As David says, the o with a slash through it can be got by switching
to a Danish, Norwegian (or Faroese) keyboard layout. In Windows you
can set a shortcut, "control + alt + shift + a key of your choice",
to toggle between language options. You should see how to do this
when you select which language options you want. You can also put
an icon on the task bar which you can click on to toggle between
languages.
For internet purposes, we tend to use o with diaresis (two dots
above it, ö, Ö) where some books on Old Norse print an o with a hook
under it--see the Iðunn and Skaði reading exercise here [
http://teaching.arts.usyd.edu.au/english/2000/icel/ ]. We would
type 'ok fóru um fjöll ok eyðimerkr' "and went over mountains and
wilderness". In the Norse course lessons this is kept distinct from
the o with a slash through it, but in some online texts (the sagas
at Netútgáfan or Zoe Borowsky's Fornaldarsögur site) the o with
diaresis is used for both. A fun font to have is Junicode [
http://junicode.sourceforge.net/ ], which has lots of obscure
medieval and phonetic characters, including hooked o, and a set of
runes.
--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "David Bahler" <davbninja@...>
wrote:
>
> Icelandic has its problems for typing the old language, however,
as the
> modern language does not use the o with a slash through it. You
can remedy
> that by also having a norwegian or danish (or some modern language
that uses
> it) text available to switch to. Also the modern language doesnt
use the oe
> lithergy either, so you have to find it somewher too.
>
>
> >From: "llama_nom" <600cell@...>
> >Reply-To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
> >To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
> >Subject: [norse_course] Typing Icelandic letters
> >Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 15:39:41 -0000
> >
> >
> >This site has instructions showing you how to switch your
keyboard to
> >an Icelandic layout.
> >
> >http://www.mentalcode.com/nl/islenska/kbd.page?return=%2Fnl%
2Fislenska%
> >2Findex.page%23kbd
> >
> >Extra tip: If you're using Windows and you see posts with garbled
> >characters on the Yahoo Groups website, you can usually remedy
that,
> >by going to the View menu > Encoding, and changing between Western
> >European (Windows) or Unicode (UTF-8).
> >
> >
> >
>
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