Digital text editing | Editio latissima

A broad edition of the Homily Book is available in Menota’s archive (look for AM 619 4to in the first column). It includes:

Introduction by Odd Einar Haugen and Åslaug Ommundsen (first draft)

Diplomatic text according to the edition of Gustav Indrebø (1931), converted and digitised by Christian-Emil Smith Ore and colleagues at the University of Oslo and revised by Odd Einar Haugen and Nina Stensaker at the University of Bergen

Facsimiles of the manuscript in full colour, courtesy of The Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection in Copenhagen

Morphological annotation by participants in the Menotec project

Translation into Modern Norwegian bokmål by Astrid Salvesen (1971)

Syntactic annotation by participants in the Menotec project (not yet activated)

In the Menotec project, the morphological and syntactic annotations were carried out by Kari Kinn, Eiríkur Kristjánsson, Signe Laake and Fartein Th. Øverland. During the preparation of the text at the University of Oslo, Rune Flaten and Mette G. Ekker participated in the project, and Alex Speed Kjeldsen (Copenhagen) helped in validating the file. The XML file may be downloaded from Menota’s archive (look for the final column, Download). It contains a full overview of all those who participated in the preparation of this edition (cf. <titleStmt> and <revisionDesc> in the header of the file).

A broad edition of the law-code of King Magnús Hákonarson the Law-mender [Magnus Lagabøtes landslov] is available in Menota’s archive (look for Holm perg 34 4to in the first column) and includes:

Introduction by Anna C. Horn (first version)

Text at three levels (facsimile, diplomatic, normalised) edited by Anna C. Horn and Robert K. Paulsen

Facsimiles of the manuscript in full colour, courtesy of the Royal Library in Stockholm

Morphological annotation by Robert K. Paulsen

Translation into Modern Norwegian bokmål by Anna C. Horn

Syntactic annotation by participants on the Menotec project (not yet activated)

In the Menotec project, the syntactic annotation was carried out by Kari Kinn, Eiríkur Kristjánsson, Signe Laake and Fartein Th. Øverland.

A broad, synoptic edition of the legend of St. Hallvard is in preparation, and a draft has been published in Menota’s test archive. The edition will include:

Introduction by Åslaug Ommundsen (under preparation)

Text according to Oslo, NRA norr fragm 98, with corresponding facsimiles of the fragment

Text according to Stockholm, Fr. 7708, with corresponding facsimiles of the fragment

Text according to Acta Sanctorum (1680) with corresponding facsimiles of the printed edition

Text according to Breviarium Nidrosiense (1519) with corresponding facsimiles of the printed edition

Translation from Latin by Åslaug Ommundsen (under preparation)

As the next step in the digitisation of these texts, a synoptic edition will be produced. In this, the corresponding parts of the texts will be linked.