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Circolwyrde is an annual OEN feature which considers digital resources that have been developed or substantially revised in the past year or so or that have not been mentioned in previous surveys. The title Circolwyrde is a hapax legomenon from Byrhtferth's Manual that means "mathematician" (literally "the state or event of cycles"). Carl Berkhout reinvents the term as "computer" in his neologized lexicon of Old English technology terms (Circolwyrde Wordhord, http://wwwu.arizona.edu/~ctb/wordhord.html), and thus renders it an apt embodiment of Anglo-Saxon digital resources. Circolwyrde % coverage has no pretensions to comprehensiveness, and the author welcomes notices of any other new or substantially revised electronic materials or commercial products. Please send any such notices to Edward Christie at echristie@ gsu.edu.
Dictionaries and Resources
The latest version of the Dictionary of Old English Online has recently been released and now includes Fascicle G as well as revised versions of Fascicles A-F. The online version is accessed by subscription at institutional and individual rates and includes a number of new features, including hotlinks to the Oxford English Dictionary, a bibliography of Latin texts referred to in the Dictionary, and advanced boolean searching that allows users to combine two or more fields in any given search. The CD-ROM version will soon be available and can be ordered from the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies. The editors of the Dictionary of Old English encourage feedback from all users. For more information, please see the "News and Announcements" section of this issue.
The Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, scanned and transcribed under Sean Crist's supervision at the Germanic Lexicon Project several years ago, was made available as an application for Mac users last year (see http://www.davidfinucane.com/bosworthToller.html for details). Now an entirely separate version for Windows 2000/XP has been created by Onrej Tichy (http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/app/). This application allows users to view either the original scanned pages or a text version (which is easier on the eyes, and which can also be cut and pasted conveniently). The application and images are downloaded in separate files and the application works without the images, which are large and take some time to download even over a fast connection. The images (which appear normal when viewed directly from the desktop) appeared stretched and unreadable when I tried to view them...