(This is the sort of post that I write more so that people doing web searches can come across it than for frequent readers who may not find this too interesting.) The textbook Old Icelandic (Oxford University Press, 1982) by Sigfrid Valfells and James E. Cathey is one of the most friendly introductions to a [...]
I came across an old article from a 1989 issue of TUGboat called ‘Lexicography with TeX’ that describes how the Institute of Lexicography of the University of Iceland typeset its etymological dictionary with TeX. The results are very handsome, and considering that the trials and tribulations they had to go largely disappeared in successive versions [...]
Despite the fact that I speak one member natively, the Germanic language family has generally seemed fairly opaque to me. Of the Indo-European languages, high school studies in Latin pulled me to Romance, and residency in Ukraine towards Slavonic. However, one of the neat things about studying at University of Helsinki is that a Swedish [...]