This guide is an in-depth listing of Scandinavian and Nordic Studies resources available to students and faculty at the University of Minnesota. Countries covered include Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.
Danish Dictionaries
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Cambridge English to Danish Dictionary (online)From Cambridge University Press.
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Danish--English--Danish Dictionaries from Lexilogos (ONLINE)Portal to multiple bilingual dictionaries.
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Den Danske Ordbok (ONLINE)Access to the Danish Dictionary covering modern Danish.
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Den Ordbog over det danske Sprog (ONLINE)Access to the Dictionary of the Danish Language, a historical dictionary covering Danish from 1700 to 1950.
Finnish Dictionaries
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Finnish--English--Finnish dictionary from Suomienglantisanakirja.fi (ONLINE)a free online dictionary for Finnish to English and English to Finnish.
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Kielitoimiston sanakirja (Finnish-language Dictionary) (ONLINE)From the Institute for the Languages of Finland, a dictionary of modern Finnish.
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Dialect dictionaries (ONLINE)From the Institute for the Languages of Finland, dialect dictionaries and more.
Icelandic Dictionaries
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Icelandic-English-Icelandic Dictionary from Lexilogos (ONLINE)Portal to multiple bilingual dictionaries.
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ISLEX (ONLINE)Multilingual dictionary between modern Icelandic and six Scandinavian target languages (TLs): Danish, Norwegian (both standards: Bokmål and Nynorsk), Swedish, Faroese and Finnish.
Norwegian Dictionaries
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Norwegian-English-Norwegian Dictionary from Lexilogos (ONLINE)Portal to multiple bilingual dictionaries.
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Bokmålsordboka og Nynorskordboka (ONLINE)Norwegian dictionary produced by the Norwegian Language Council (Språkrådet). Entries in Bokmål and Nynorsk. Includes conjugation of verbs and declining of nouns.
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Bokmål—nynorsk—bokmål (ONLINE)Dictionary from Bokmål Norwegian to Nynorsk Norwegian and back.
Old Norse/Old Icelandic Dictionaries
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ONP: Dictionary of Old Norse Prose (ONLINE)Part of The Arnamagnæan Collection in the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics (NorS) at the University of Copenhagen.
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A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic (1910) via HathiTrust (ONLINE)Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1910
Swedish Dictionaries
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Swedish-English-Swedish from Lexilogos (ONLINE)Portal to multiple bilingual dictionaries.
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Swedish-English-Swedish People's Dictionary from Lexin (ONLINE)Crowd-sourced dictionary.
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Svenska Akademiens Ordbok (ONLINE)Swedish Academy's dictionary.
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Fornsvensk Lexikalisk Databas (ONLINE)Old Swedish Dictionary. Entries in Modern and Old Swedish.
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