Germanic Language Resources
These digital facsimile editions of books on Gothic and Old Saxon were prepared for the Wulfila project. As the original works are in the public domain, it seems reasonable to share them.
Many more books can be found at Sean Crist's Germanic Lexicon Project; his website was an important source of inspiration.
Contents
- Sievers, Eduard: Heliand. Halle 1878.
- Streitberg, Wilhelm: Gotisches Elementarbuch. Heidelberg 1920.
- Streitberg, Wilhelm: Gotisch–Griechisch–Deutsches Wörterbuch. Heidelberg 1910.
One digital edition moved to the KANTL in 2013:
- Gysseling, Maurits: Toponymisch Woordenboek van België, Nederland, Luxemburg, Noord-Frankrijk en West-Duitsland (vóór 1226). Belgisch Interuniversitair Centrum voor Neerlandistiek 1960.
Technical notes
The facsimile editions are available in three formats:
- TIFF – Original scans, bilevel (i.e. monochrome) 600dpi images compressed with CCITT Group 4 compression. You may need an app or browser plugin to view them.
- PNG – Images optimized for web viewing, derived from the TIFF files.
- PDF – Entire book in one document, for printing of offline browsing.
Files were built with open-source software: ImageMagick for compression, ExifTool to add metadata, XnView MP to generate the PNG images, Saxon for XSL Transformations, and Apache FOP with XSL Formatting Objects to create the PDF files.
Copyright
With the exception of Gysseling 1960, all books in this collection are in the public domain: they were published before 1923 and their authors died more than 70 years ago. You are free to download and use the images and documents as you wish.
We would, however, appreciate it if use of these materials is properly acknowledged, in accordance with normal scholarly etiquette.