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[rymenhild]

The entire Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary is available in graphics files on the Web.

There are no words to describe how happy this makes me.

Comments

[tropes.livejournal.com]

YAY electronic Beowulf! One of my classmates is writing his Social Systems and Collections Paper on it! :x

Great yay for digital preservation.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

The only problem with digital preservation is that once texts have been digitally preserved, no research library is ever going to let any scholar whose full ancestry is not known to them within a football field of the original manuscripts.

[tropes.livejournal.com]

True; but the accessibility of the texts to so many users has to be a consideration. :D

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Oh, certainly. Given the choice, I'd want access to everything in both digital and original... but libraries have limited resources and must trade off somewhere.

[obopolsk.livejournal.com]

This makes me very happy, too! (Almost as happy as my recent discovery of The Magnetic Fields.) :D

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

I discovered them last week too, mostly because their lead singer has another band (the Gothic Archies) that does Lemony Snicket soundtrack things. Fun stuff.

[scazon.livejournal.com]

OMG that is awesome.

"The indigenous Pagan alphabet of our Anglo-Saxon forefathers, called Runes … "

I die of glee.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

The anthropology may be wrong, but the dictionary's still (still!) the standard reference work, and as such a brilliant thing to have on the web.

(If anyone at U of Toronto is reading this, could you guys hurry up already on the new Old English Dictionary? Thanks!)

[scazon.livejournal.com]

There seems to be a bias in classical scholarship (and not just that of Latin or Greek) against making too much use of modern linguistic theory, especially generative grammar. Latin and Greek are good, goes the theory, because they are Old and Immutable.

I smell a LiveJournal entry coming up soon (by which I mean after I finish my Latin and Greek papers)…

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

You said the evil words "generative grammar."

It is not that I have anything against generative grammar, except for the fact that I am currently on LJ to avoid the generative grammar paper due tomorrow.

[genarti]

SO COOL.

I am such a dictionary dork. *squees over the website*