{"id":8263,"date":"2020-08-11T13:04:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T11:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/?p=8263"},"modified":"2020-08-11T13:04:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T11:04:24","slug":"more-free-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/more-free-time\/","title":{"rendered":"More free time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Use your free time to study the Gothic handwriting you find in many Norwegian sources<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is not a course in reading Gothic handwriting. This is an invitation to share my experiences when I sat down to learn to better read handwritten Norwegian sources.<\/p>\n<p>I published this on the blog at the time but as I have many new subscribers I would like to present this again.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the articles<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"How to read Gothic handwriting \u2013 1\" href=\"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/gothic-handwriting\/\">How to read Gothic handwriting \u2013 1<\/a> A little bit on the background of Gothic lettering.<div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:10px\"><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Gothic handwriting \u2013 2\" href=\"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/gothinc-handwriting-2\/\">Gothic handwriting \u2013 2<\/a> The Gothic alphabet as it is found in the records.<div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:10px\"><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"How to read Gothic handwriting \u2013 3\" href=\"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/how-to-read-gothic-handwriting-3\/\">How to read Gothic handwriting \u2013 3<\/a>\u00a0 Grouping letters together and looking at differences and similarities.<div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:10px\"><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"How to read Gothic handwriting \u2013 4 \u2013 Letters to words\" href=\"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/how-to-read-gothic-handwriting-4-letters-to-words\/\">How to read Gothic handwriting \u2013 4 \u2013 Letters to Words<\/a> Putting the letters together to words often found in records.<div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:10px\"><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"How to read Gothic handwriting \u2013 5\" href=\"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/gothic-handwriting-5-closing-remarks\/\">How to read Gothic handwriting \u2013 5<\/a> Some Things to observe when reading handwritten records. <div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:10px\"><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I followed up with two articles on specific letters<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"The Gothic letters \u201ci\u201d and \u201cj\u201d\" href=\"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/the-gothic-letters-i-and-j\/\">The Gothic letters \u201ci\u201d and \u201cj\u201d<div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:10px\"><\/div><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Gothic letters h, s and f\" href=\"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/gothic-letters-h-s-and-f\/\">Gothic letters h, s and f<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have questions or comments, don&#8217;t hesitate to comment below or send me a mail from the <a href=\"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/contact\/\">Contact page.<\/a> I will try to answer to the best of my knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use your free time to study the Gothic handwriting you find in many Norwegian sources<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gothic-handwriting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>More free time! 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