clemsciences / old_norse_corpus

Old Norse texts with reader functions

Corpus of Old Norse texts

This package provides Old Norse texts with code to parse them.

Sources

Although texts are in public domain, we must thank those who digitalised and normalized these texts.

• Heimskringla.no

Installation

$ pip install --user --upgrade norsecorpus

How to use norsecorpus

import norsecorpus.reader as ncr
available_texts = ncr.get_available_texts()
filename = "volsunga.xml"
volsunga = ncr.read_tei_words(available_texts[filename])
print(volsunga[0][0][0]) # first sentence of the Völsunga saga

You have now the Völsunga saga.