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Wow, these are all awesome. Thanks so much to everyone.

I've gotten some headway by warming up on the Rune Poems, so I hope to
have some things to send the list's way.

Thanks again everybody.
- - sabin

On 11/23/2010 12:46 AM, Brian M. Scott wrote:
>
>
> At 1:32:17 PM on Monday, November 22, 2010, Sabin Densmore
> wrote:
>
>> I want to start working on translating the Havamal, and
>> I'm hoping you guys might know of the best dictionary and
>> grammar aid I can use to start with. I do plan on getting
>> some books, but in the meantime I figured I'd save some
>> scratch and start online.
>
>> Any suggestions?
>
> The two standard English-language Old Norse dictionaries are
> Cleasby & Vigfússon, Icelandic-English Dictionary, and
> Zoëga's Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, which is
> basically an abridged and slightly rearranged version of CV.
> Zoëga is easier to use, but it does lack some entries that
> are found in CV. There is a nice on-line version of Zoëga
> at <http://norse.ulver.com/dct/zoega/index.html>, and
> another at
> <http://www.alfaleith.org/reading/zoega/index002.php>; both
> include the grammatical tables at the end of the book.
> Alternatively, you can download the whole book as a 3.5 MB
> PDF from the Files section of this group. CV can be
> consulted at
> <http://www.alfaleith.org/reading/vigfusson/index002.php> or
> at
> <http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/texts/oi_cleasbyvigfusson_about.html>.
>
> If you can read Danish, Johann Fritzner's Ordbog over det
> gamle norske Sprog can be consulted via the interface at
> <http://www.edd.uio.no/perl/search/search.cgi?appid=86&tabid=1275
> <http://www.edd.uio.no/perl/search/search.cgi?appid=86&tabid=1275>>.
> (Note that some spaces between words were lost when the
> original was transferred to the web.) All three volumes are
> also available for download at Google Books.
>
> An initial grammar aid is the partial online course at
> <http://notendur.hi.is/haukurth/norse/>. More technical,
> but also more extensive, is the Old Norse Online course at
> <http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/eieol/norol-TC-X.html>.
>
> Oh, I almost forgot: sometimes the modern Icelandic
> dictionary at
> <http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/IcelOnline/Search.TEId.html>
> is helpful, especially since it recognizes inflected forms.
> You do have to be aware of certain consistent spelling
> differences between Old and modern Icelandic, however.
>
> I think that I've covered the most useful on-line sources.
> For print source I strongly recommend Michael Barnes, A New
> Introduction to Old Norse, already mentioned by Patti: you
> can't beat it for a combination of readability and
> reasonable price. Patti gave an Amazon.co.uk link; here's
> an Amazon.com link.
>
> <http://www.amazon.com/New-Introduction-Norse-Michael-Barnes/dp/0903521652/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1290491019&sr=1-1
> <http://www.amazon.com/New-Introduction-Norse-Michael-Barnes/dp/0903521652/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1290491019&sr=1-1>>
>
> Brian
>
>

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