The British Columbia Digital Library

Digital Library Collections By Subject: Scandinavian Texts

See also under General Collections: Europe for the national libraries of the Scandinavian nations Literature: General Works, and literature time periods.

• Henrik Ibsens hånd (Henrik Ibsen's Hand). Oslo, Norway: Senter for Ibsen-studier, Universitetet i Oslo. Digital facsimiles of manuscripts and letters by Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906). Date added: 2002-09-08.
• Henrik Ibsens skrifter (Henrik Ibsen's Writings). Hosted by the HIT Centre, University of Bergen, Norway. Collaborative project whose goal is a definitive edition of Ibsen's published works by the centennial of his death in 2006. The SGML-encoded texts are formatted for viewing with the SoftQuad Panorama client. Date added: 2001-02-28. Date updated: 2002-09-08.
• Jörmungrund (Iceland). " Old Icelandic literature, primarily Eddaic and Skaldic poetry."
• The Online Medieval and Classical Library (Formerly managed by Douglas B. Killings hosted by Berkeley Digital SunSITE). Includes Scandinavian and Icelandic sagas.
• Project Runeberg (Lysator, Linköping University, Sweden). Bilingual interface: Swedish and English. Established in 1992, full-text electronic editions in HTML of Nordic literary and non-fiction works. The project is digitizing the first two editions of the Nordisk familjebok (" Nordic family book" ). As of September 2002, the 18 volumes of the first edition (" 1800-talsutgåvan" , 18 volumes, 1876-1894, with 3 volumes supplement, 1904-1926) are available at http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/nf/ The Lysator site also includes links to non-Scandinavian electronic texts from around the world. Date added: 2002-04-03. Date updated: 2002-09-08.
• SagaNet. National and University Library of Iceland Cornell University Árni Magnússon Institute. Bilingual interface: Icelandic and English. Digital facsimiles of Icelandic manuscripts and books published before 1901. Alternate URL: http://saga.library.cornell.edu/ Date added: 2002-09-08.

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