Odd Einar Haugen

Menota: Guidelines, archive, extension 

The Medieval Nordic Text Archive (www.menota.org) was founded at a meeting in Oslo 10 September 2001, and has over the years developed and diversified. First of all, guidelines for the encoding of medieval primary sources in XML have been issued in the online Menota Handbook (1st version 2003, 3rd version 2019). Secondly, the text archive itself, presently hosted at the University of Bergen, now amounts to around 1,800,000 words, of which 765,000 words have complete morphological annotation, and over 300,000 words syntactic annotation. In addition, Menota is now in the process of including runic inscriptions and charters (diplomas). Thirdly, by way of the experimental Editio latissima project, it offers two major texts with introductions, up to three levels of rendering, parallel facsimiles, full morphological and syntactic annotation, and sentence by sentence translation.