The electronic Diplomatarium Norvegicum

A page from the printed Diplomatarium Norvegicum

Search

Diplomatarium Norvegicum consists of 22 volumes of printed transcripts of medieval diplomas concerning Norway in the middle ages. The texts are mostly written in Old Norse, Latin, Danish and German. The first volume was published in 1847 and work is still in progress with volume 23. The quality of the transcriptions varies and reflects the accepted standard of their time. In the printed edition, each diploma has a (tentative) date and place of issue together with some archival information of the original (now mostly outdated) and a short summary written in modern Danish or Norwegian. The Documentation Project has converted the complete printed Diplomatarium Norvegicum together with a set of new transcriptions of the Old Norse diplomas until 1302 are converted into an electronic text with SGML markup.

In this test version it is possible to search in vol. I-XXI of the printed edition of the Diplomatarium Norvegicum. The printed edition consists of 22 volumes containing the transcription of approximately 20 000 diplomas connected to Norway in the period 1150 to 1570. Vol. I-XXI contain the text of 17 000 + diplomas.

The proofreading of the texts are not completed. The Norwegian State Archive, The Section for Lexicography of The Department of Nordic Languages and Litterature at The University of Oslo, and the Documtentation Project have agreed upon starting a joint Internet publication of the Diplomatarium Norvegicum supplied with black and white facsimiles.

The facsimile shows a typical page from the printed Diplomatarium. The information categories are marked with the corresponding field name in the search form (date=dato, place=sted, regesta=sammendrag, text=brevtekst).

Søkemuligheter

In all fields a '%' will indicate more text. Thus '%vik' matches 'vik', 'Kinzarvik', 'vik%' matches 'vik', 'viku' and 'vikarius'. 'vik' matches only 'vik'. The search string '%vik%' matches all words containing 'vik', for example 'Ramvikom' og 'kvikv'.Use '_' for one unspecified character (wildchar).

In the fields REGESTA, TEXT,ADITIONAL INFO and SOURCE it is possible to combine search strings by using 'and', 'or', 'not' and parenthesis.

Examples:

'Bergen and Oslo' matches all diplomas containing both 'Bergen' and 'Oslo'
'Bergen or Oslo' matches all diplomas containing 'Bergen' and/or 'Oslo'
'Erling Ormsson' matches 'Erling Ormsson'
'Bergen not Oslo' matches a diploma containing 'Bergen' but not 'Oslo'

Back