Classic Texts from Old Norse Litterature

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Texts retrieved from heimskrinla.no for easy use with cltk!

License

Of course, texts are in public domain due to their age, but please look at http://heimskringla.no/wiki/Heimskringla.no:Copyright for the credit to Heimskringla. So, as soon as you use the texts here, you should mention Heimskringla and the authors of the texts.

Available texts:

• Eddukvæði, Poetic Edda, Elder Edda, Sæmundar Edda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetic_Edda

  • Alvíssmál (In Codex Regius)
  • Atlakviða
  • Atlamál in grænlenzku
  • Baldrs draumar
  • Dráp Niflunga
  • Fafnismál
  • Grímnismál (In Codex Regius)
  • Gróttasöngr
  • Guðrúnarhvöt
  • Hamðismál
  • Helreið Brynhildar
  • Hymiskviða (In Codex Regius)
  • Hyndluljóð
  • Hárbarðsljóð (In Codex Regius)
  • Hávamál (In Codex Regius)
  • Lokasenna (In Codex Regius)
  • Oddrúnarkviða
  • Rígsþúla
  • Sigrdrífumál
  • Skírnismál (In Codex Regius)
  • Vafþrúðnismál (In Codex Regius)
  • Völundarkviða (In Codex Regius)
  • Völuspá (In Codex Regius)
  • þrymskviða (In Codex Regius)

• Snorra Edda in Old Norse, Prose Edda, Younger Edda or Snorri's Edda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prose_Edda

  • Prologus
  • Gylfaginning
  • Háttatal
  • Skáldskaparmál

POS annotations

The tagset is available at http://nlp.cs.ru.is/pdf/Tagset.pdf

God names are like person names.

A POS tags reader is available. For a tag like 'sfg3eþ', it returns the correponding meaning, here it is 'verb indicative active third singular past'.

Annotated texts:

• Völuspá

Be careful! POS tagged texts were annotated by a non-specialist and were not checked by 'peer' review.

Generate the package : pip3.6 install -U -e .