--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Higgins <asthiggins@...> wrote:

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> Hello All
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> What is the feeling out there regarding using Cleasby Vigfusson vs. Zoega as Old Norse dictionaries?? For my studies I tend to use Zoega backed up by EV Gordon's dictionary in the back of his Old Norse primer (the one I learned from) and occasionally Michael Barnes glossary I have not purchased a Cleasby Vigfusson (yet) although have been tempted!!!

Hey there, Andrew. Did you know that both are online? CV here:

http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/oi_cleasbyvigfusson_about.html#images

And Zoega at several sites. This is one I find convenient:

http://norse.ulver.com/dct/zoega/index.html

Zoega's dictionary is essentially an abridged version of CV. Another dictionary is Fritzner's:

http://www.edd.uio.no/perl/search/search.cgi?appid=86&tabid=1275

For specialised poetic vocabulary, there's Sveinbjörn Egilsson and Finnur Jónsson's Lexicon poeticum:

http://www.septentrionalia.net/lex/index.php