Germanic Lexicon Project: An Icelandic-English Dictionary (original) (raw)

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• Download the entire text of Cleasby/Vigfusson (11Mb, updated weekly)

Credits to the online edition:

Sean Crist initiated and is directing the project, and also did the OCR, major software design and programming, and ongoing global corrections.

Scanning and preparation of these page images was made possible by a grant from the American-Scandivanian Foundation. Many thanks to theAmerican-Scandivanian Foundation for their generous support for this project.

Spring 2003: Rebecca Kuipers scanned the entire text, cropped the images and fixed the rotation, and corrected the OCR-ed page headers at the top of each page which appear in the page list below.

Summer 2003: Michael O'Keefe performed many global corrections on the text version and corrected the first dozen or so pages by hand.

Spring 2004: Bronwyn Woods corrected the headwords for the entire dictionary.

Cleasby/Vigfusson is the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary on Old Icelandic.

Work on this project started in 2003. It is one of the major presently ongoing projects, with correction work being performed by volunteers worldwide (click the Volunteer tab above for more information). The goal is to produce a fully corrected document, marked up in XML.

The interim version of the complete text can be searched; click theSearch tab above. The search database and the downloadable text are automatically updated once a week to reflect the corrections which volunteers have submitted.

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The TIFF files are scanned at 400dpi and are very large (around 1.3Mb per file). The PNG files are much more convenient for viewing; they have been scaled smaller and average around 300kb per file.

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