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3 unusual facts about Richard Cleasby


Richard Cleasby

He worked while travelling between England, German spas, and Copenhagen, where he had amanuenses.

In 1839 he collated the Codex Argenteus at Upsala, and in January 1840 he formed the plan of his Icelandic-English Dictionary, starting work by April.

Viking halberd

The first Icelandic-English Dictionary by Richard Cleasby and Guðbrandur Vigfússon, translates kesja as "a kind of halberd" and states that "kesja, atgeir and höggspjót appear to be the same thing".



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