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Frisian: Old Frisian

Frisian language and literature
Subjects: Frisian

Grammar and Dictionaries

Bremmer, R. H. (Rolf H. (2009). An introduction to Old Frisian : history, grammar, reader, glossary (1st ed.). John Benjamins Pub. Co. https://doi.org/10.1075/z.147 

Hofmann, D., & Popkema, A. T. (2008). Altfriesisches Handwörterbuch. Universitätsverlag Winter.

Corpus Old Frisian The Corpus Oudfries/Old Frisian contains a large sample of the Old Frisian language from ca. 1200-1550, which has been lemmatized and PoS-tagged by Rita van de Poel as part of her PhD research. The corpus can be searched on three linguistic levels: words (as occurring in the text witness), lemmata and/or part-of-speech. The corpus has also been enriched with metadata (like dialect, region, date) made accessible through filtering and grouping options.
At this point in time the corpus Old Frisian contains 235,462 tokens, 177 text witnesses from 11 manuscripts (114 distinct texts).

Texts and manuscripts

Old Frisian Manuscripts 

First Brokmer Codex (B1) - Oldenburg, Niedersächsisches Staatsarchiv

Second Brokmer Codex (B2) - Hanover, Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek

First Riustringen Codex  (R1)  - Oldenburg, Niedersächsisches Staatsarchiv

Second Riustringen Codex (R2) - Richthofen Collection - Leeuwarden 

First Emsingo Codex (E1) - Groningen University Library

Second Emsingo Codex (E2) - Groningen University Library

Third Emsingo Codex (E3) - Richthofen Collection - Leeuwarden 

Fivelgo Codex - Richthofen Collection - Leeuwarden 

First Hunsingo Codex (H1) - Richthofen Collection - Leeuwarden 

Second Hunsingo Codex (H2) - Richthofen Collection - Leeuwarden 

Jus Municipale Frisonum - Richthofen Collection - Leeuwarden 

Codex Unia -  Bodleian Library, Oxford. Images and transcription http://tdb.fryske-akademy.eu/tdb/index-unia.html

Codex Aysma - Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Codex Roorda Richthofen Collection - Leeuwarden