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Use your free time to study the Gothic handwriting you find in many Norwegian sources
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Gothic handwriting
How to decipher Norwegian farm names
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Gothic letters h, s and f
Let us look at three Gothic letters that are easy to mix up.
The Gothic letters “i” and “j”
When trying to read Gothic handwriting or a printed text accurately transcribed, the letters i and j may sometimes cause a little confusion.
How to read Gothic handwriting – 5
This is the last installment in my little study of Gothic handwriting.
How to read Gothic handwriting – 4 – Letters to words
In this installment I will look at some words that frequently appear in church records.
How to read Gothic handwriting – 3
I am continuing my quest at getting better at reading Gothic handwriting. In this part I will try to group the letters together and look at differences and similarities.
Gothic handwriting – 2
In the last “installment” of this “study” I promised to be back with more. I have gone through some records from the first part of the 1700s and tried to recognize the letters there.
How to read Gothic handwriting – 1
Gothic handwriting was developed in the 1100s in France on the basis of the Carolingian minuscule. Variations of this handwriting dominated in Norway from the 1600s, and were taught in Norwegian schools to about 1860.