Academy of Saint Gabriel Members' Guide
What's Where
Back to the main page.
Important e-mail addresses.
Here is a list of important or useful web sites:
- The Academy website
Some parts of the site are password protected.
- The Problem Names project
- The Academy's Medieval Heraldry Archive
- Academy Internal Home Page
Some parts of the site are password protected.
- Bad web sources for medieval names
- Effric's Medieval Scotland page
- Effric's Scottish Names Resources
- Aryanhwy's name articles
- SCA home page
- Some useful references
- Heraldry. See also Specific Cultures, below, and the Medieval Heraldry Archive.
- Languages and Linguistics
- Alphabets
- Charts of Unicode characters from 0100 to 017F and from 0180 to 024F.
- Ogham
- Norse Runes: We really, really want a
page of our own that illustrates the futhark.
- Arild Hauge's
The Norwegian Runes. There are pictures
galore of many different futharks, transliterated and translated
inscriptions, some discussion -- you name it. And some of it is
most amusing, especially the runic commercial notes and graffiti
from Norwegian towns in the 13th and 14th c. The futhark
labeled Norwegian-Danish Runes from the 800s is a good choice
for many of our clients.
- The
Runes. Illustrations of several futharks. For Old Norse
names, we recommend the two Younger Futharks, with 16 runes.
- Gullskoen
Rune font, with drawings of the various Viking and
post-Viking runic alphabets.
- Rundata, a database of runic inscriptions. In Swedish.
- Cyrillic
-
The Russian Alphabet. Talan wrote: It shows only
upper case and uses an odd transliteration of shcha (the
letter that looks a bit like <III,>. On the good side, it uses (apart from shcha) the letter names as I learned to
pronounce them, and it uses the term 'soft sign'. (I believe
that the pronunciation of shcha is actually changing, so
this may not be a real error.) However, Iago noted that
this is the modern alphabet.
- Cyrillic Alphabet. Talan wrote: On the good side it
gives upper- and lower-case for both print and script; on
the bad side, it has a really odd pronunciation guide, and
it doesn't use the term 'soft sign'. (You have to know what
to look for: the fourth symbol from the end, the one that
looks like a short b and is called in this list 'miakhky
znak'.) However, Iago noted that this is the modern alphabet.
- Russian alphabet, with pronunciations
- Church Slavonic Transliteration. The preceding Cyrillic
alphabet pages give the modern Russian alphabet, which Iago
explained didn't come into use until 1708 and was
modified slightly in 1917-18. A somewhat better (but still
not ideal) guide to the way Russian was written in our
period would be the Church Slavonic Alphabet... I'm not
sure if the transliteration scheme would match the one we
are using. There are only "upper case" letters represented
because in medieval Russian writing that was all they
used.
- Arabic
-
Arabic Alphabet with pictures, names, and recorded
pronunciations.
-
Learning Arabic has a table of the alphabet. Click on a
letter to see its name and transliteration.
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Libraries: There are thousands of online library catalogues; I
have found these to be particularly useful. The first one is
especially good and easy to use.
- Bookstores: Some of the better ones for finding the kind of book
we drool over.
- Grammar
- Language Dictionaries
- The Dictionary of the Irish Language
- The Dictionary of the Scots Language, a combination of the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, which covers Scots up to 1700, and the Scottish National Dictionary, which covers modern Scots.
- ARTFL Project: French-English Dictionary Form
- Real Academia EspañolaThe basic material from which a Spanish equivalent of the OED is being compiled. Follow the links to the banco do datos for find a search form.
- Middle English Compendium, including a Middle English Dictionary.
- MacBain's Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language. That's Scottish Gaelic. This site also provides MacFarline's The School Gaelic Dictionary of Scottish Gaelic, Kelly's Fockleyr Gaelg-Baarle, a dictionary of Manx Gaelic, andGramadach Lexicon, a dictionary of Irish Gaelic.
- Oxford English Dictionary (if you can use it)
- Enciclopedia Ctalana Dictionary of Catalan
- An Icelandic-English Dictionary, by Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson
- A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic by Zoëga.
- Other Dictionaries & Encyclopedia
- Scholarly Organizations
- Other Useful Bibliographies
- Searchable Bibles
- History
- Maps
- Manuscript collections and the like
- Specific cultures
- Viking & Scandinavian
- Gypsy
- Slavic
- Jews
- Ireland
- Italy
About the Mailing Lists
The Academy has two mailing lists, one for incoming mail from prospective clients to be reviewed for preliminary research, and the second for discussions of current clients, other research, members' questions to each other, administrivia, bad jokes, and the like. The mailing list for discussion of incoming mail is incoming@s-gabriel.org, and the list for the discussion of current clients and other matters is gabriel@s-gabriel.org. The lists are managed by Blaise de Cormeilles, blaise@s-gabriel.org. You can configure your subscription to either mailing list to send a daily digest rather than individual messages. To subscribe to the mailing lists and configure your subscription, you can use an e-mail interface or a web interface.
To use the mail interface for the main mailing list, send a message to gabriel-request@s-gabriel.org with one of the following commands:
- For individual messages, use "submode default".
- For digests, use "submode digest".
- For individual messages without copies of your own messages, use "submode notmine".
- To suppress all messages (either temporarily while unable to receive mail or for posting access to a secondary email address), use "submode postonly".
- To unsubscribe entirely, use "unsubscribe" as the subject line.
To manage your subscription to the incoming mailing list, send similar messages to incoming-request@s-gabriel.org.
To use the web interface, go to http://www.s-gabriel.org/lists/ and enter the e-mail address that you think is subscribed. The system will send a note to that address with an authentication code to access the subscription system.
However you subscribe, you will get a confirmation notice back, to which you will have to reply. Blaise will confirm your subscription shortly thereafter, and you will start getting mail from the list. If you are a new member, then once you start receiving mail from the main list, please send a short note introducing yourself to the Academy. Tell us your name (medieval & modern, if you have both), where you live, and your background in names and heraldry. If you have a question pending before the Academy when you subscribe, please mention that.
The old mailing lists, gabriel-private@umich.edu, gabriel@scadian.net, and gabriel@minstrel.com, have been shut down. These addresses are now just aliases for the active list, and may not work as smoothly as the active address.
Size Limit on Mail
Our mailing list limits the size of messages at 40K. We have only once had a letter longer than that. If you think you have or will run afoul of the limit, contact Blaise for help.
Accessing Password-Protected Sections of our Websites
Some parts of our public and internal websites are password-protected: our discussion archives and the scripts we use to operate the Academy. (Our report archives are available to the public.) All Academy members may access the discussion archives, but you'll need a password to do it. Aryanhwy handles password assignment. Send her your Society name, modern name, and the password you want to use. The password should be at least six characters and unrelated to your Society or mundane name or any e-mail address you use.
When you try to access a protected page, your browser will pop up a window prompting you for a username and password. In most cases, your username will be your Society first name, capitalized. (If that's already taken, Arval or Aryanhwy will let you know and let you choose another username.) Both usernames and passwords are case-sensitive. Typically, you will need to log in to the site each time you re-start your browser.
Maintained by Aryanhwy; last updated 17 May 2011.
