From: Eysteinn Bjornsson
Message: 7854
Date: 2007-02-16
--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell@...> wrote:
>
>
>
http://dp.rastko.net/projects/projectID438a3f4017f9f/projectID438a3f40
17f9f_TEI.txt
>
> I think this might be in the proofreading stage for Project
Gutenberg.
> I haven't been able to find the text at the Project Gutenberg site
> itself, but maybe I'm just not looking in the right place. There
are
> poems in this that aren't in our text; I haven't looked closely at
it
> yet to see whether it matches the occasional strange readings we've
> found in ours. As you can see, the spelling follows a different
> convention, more like the Íslenzk fornrit orthography except
that 'é'
> is spelt 'je' (as pronounced in Modern Icelandic), and 'æ' is used
for
> both earlier 'oe'. The source of the text was unknown to whoever
put
> it here; maybe it's one of the old editions at Saganet.
>
> LN
>