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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.

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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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