- Hardcover: 880 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford; 2 edition (26 Mar 1963)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0198631030
- ISBN-13: 978-0198631033
- Product Dimensions: 27.6 x 20.2 x 5.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,674,722 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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First published in 1874, this landmark dictionary of old Icelandic is both authoritative and comprehensive. It offers thousands of illustrative quotations, full descriptions of pronunciation for every letter, and a detailed outline of grammar that includes the old Icelandic alphabet, word formation, and spelling. The 52-page supplement contains a list of additional words and references from the eleventh century to the mid-fourteenth century. An essential point of reference for any student of old Icelandic, supplement author Sir William A. Craigie stated in 1957 that 'though the dictionary is mainly intended for the old authors, both in prose and poetry, it endeavours to embrace an account of the whole language, old and new'.
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Anglophones wishing to read Old Norse / Old Icelandic literature have two main dictionaries to choose from, Cleasby-Vigfusson and Zoega. Cleasby-Vigfusson is by far the larger of the two and it does for Old Icelandic what LSJ does for Greek or Monier-Williams for Sanskrit. Zoega, on the other hand, is roughly comparable in scope to the "Middle Liddell" Greek dictionary. Both the Cleasby-Vigfusson and the Zoega are available on-line from the U.Penn. Germanic Lexicon Project, so you can peruse them at your leisure to see which would suit your needs better. I would have awarded five stars to C-V for its utility or perhaps only four because it's out of date (to approximately the same extent as the LSJ). But I'm only awarding three because of the book production: rather than having a proper "textured" cover like the LSJ or the OLD, the OUP have reprinted C-V with a glossy cover (and no dust-jacket), making it look like a cheap reprint.
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