[MR] Fw: Saganet

[Rowanwald Central]

Saganet
http://saga.library.cornell.edu/

The National and University Library of Iceland has partnered with Cornell
University to bring Saganet to the Web. This impressive digitization project
will feature 380,000 manuscript pages and 145,000 printed pages of Old
Icelandic literature and critical works published before 1900. The site
offers "the full range of Icelandic family sagas" as well as Germanic/Nordic
mythology, the history of Norwegian kings, and tales of European chivalry.
Users can search or browse the collection, and there is a large amount of
help documentation for those who need more assistance getting used to the
interface. It is perhaps needless to say that the site is available in both
English and Icelandic, though the texts and cataloging records are only in
Icelandic. We had difficulties using the site with Netscape on a Mac
platform but no problems with Internet Explorer.