Wulfila.be
Title
Wulfila project: a small digital library dedicated to the study of the Gothic language
Description
About the project
Project Wulfila is a small digital library dedicated to the study of Gothic and Old Germanic languages in general. Our primary goal is to provide linguistically annotated editions that can be downloaded in TEI format or browsed online, linked to a digital glossary,
-tags and interlinear translations. The focus is currently on the Gothic Bible and minor fragments; in addition, we are working on a lemmatized edition of the Old Saxon Heliand and – on a smaller scale – selected Middle and Early Modern Dutch documents. We are also interested in preparing digital facsimile editions of relevant textbooks and other related resources that have entered the public domain. The project is hosted by the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
History
The project dates back to late 1996, when Tom De Herdt and Steven Van Assche – two graduates from Ghent University – posted fragments of the Gothic Bible to a student webserver. The (admittedly distant) goal was a lemmatized edition where each word in the text would be ‘clickable’, mainly inspired by the Perseus project. Though it was initially limited to the Gospels according to Mark and Matthew, the site generated some interest and to our surprise, several people kindly offered help in digitizing the text. David Landau and Robert Tannert scanned and edited the greater part of Streitberg's edition and by the end of 1997 the entire Gothic Bible was available.
Languages
English
