William Craigie (1867–1957)
Author of The Icelandic Sagas
About the Author
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Works by William Craigie
The Scottish Tongue: A Series of Lectures on the Vernacular Language of Lowland Scotland Delivered to the Members of… (1922) 5 copies
Scandinavian folklore : Illustrations of the traditional beliefs of the Northern peoples (2009) 5 copies
A dictionary of the older Scottish tongue : from the twelfth century to the end of the seventeenth (1994) 4 copies, 2 reviews
A dictionary of the older Scottish tongue, from the twelfth century to the end of the seventeenth, Part XLI, Ride to… (1994) 3 copies
A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: From the Twelfth Century to the End of the Seventeenth Part 33 (Dictionary… (1993) 2 copies
A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: From the Twelfth Century to the End of the Seventeenth Part 35 (Dictionary… (1993) 2 copies
Specimens of Anglo-Saxon prose 2 copies
A dictionary of the older Scottish tongue, from the twelfth century to the end of the seventeenth, Vol. III, H-L (1994) 2 copies
A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: From the Twelfth Century to the End of the Seventeenth Volume VI: Po-Quh (1994) 2 copies
A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: From the Twelfth Century to the End of the Seventeenth Part 42 (1994) 1 copy
A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: From the Twelfth Century to the End of the Seventeenth: Volume VII: Qui-Ro… (1994) 1 copy
A Dictionary of the older Scottish tongue : from the twelfth century to the end of the seventeenth : founded on the… (1988) 1 copy
A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: From the Twelfth Century to the End of the Seventeenth Part 30 (1993) 1 copy
A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: From the Twelfth Century to the End of the Seventeenth Part 37 (Pt. 37) (1986) 1 copy
A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: From the Twelfth Century to the End of the Seventeenth: Volume 2 (D-G) Parts… (1994) 1 copy
A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: From the Twelfth Century to the End of the Seventeenth Part 32 (Pt. 32) (1985) 1 copy
A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: From the Twelfth Century to the End of the Seventeenth Part 29 (Pt. 29) (1994) 1 copy
Associated Works
The traveling companion (Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) (1987) — Translator, some editions — 24 copies
The Oxford book of Scandinavian verse, XVIIth century-XXth century (1925) — Editor, some editions — 7 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Craigie, William
- Legal name
- Craigie, William Alexander
- Other names
- Craigie, W. A.
- Birthdate
- 1867-08-13
- Date of death
- 1957-09-02
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
Scotland - Birthplace
- Dundee, Scotland, UK
- Place of death
- Watlington, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Education
- St Andrews University
Oxford University (Oriel College|BA|1891) - Occupations
- philologist
lexicographer
professor - Organizations
- University of Oxford
University of Chicago
University of St. Andrews
English Place-Name Society
Scottish Text Society
Anglo-Norman Text Society - Awards and honors
- Knight Bachelor (1928)
Fellow, British Academy (1931)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1928)
American Philosophical Society (1942)
Honorary Member, Frisian Academy (1938)
Knight Commander, Order of the Icelandic Falcon (1930) (show all 8)
Knight, Order of the Icelandic Falcon (1925)
Sir Israel Gollancz Prize (1935) - Short biography
- Sir William Alexander Craigie (13 August 1867 – 2 September 1957) was a philologist and a lexicographer.
A graduate of the University of St Andrews, he was the third editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and co-editor (with C. T. Onions) of the 1933 supplement. From 1916 to 1925 he was also Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Oxford.
He lectured on lexicography at the University of Chicago while working on the Dictionary of American English and the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, a project he pioneered. Many twentieth-century American lexicographers studied under Craigie as a part of his lectureship, including Clarence Barnhart, Jess Stein, Woodford A. Heflin, Robert Ramsey, Louise Pound, and Allen Walker Read. [from Wikipedia
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Reviews
A Dictionary of the older Scottish tongue from the… by William A. Craigie
Part 45 and vols. 9, 10, and 11.
A short book written in 1913, but still interesting. Subjects included the reasons why the Icelanders composed so many sagas, the role of Icelandic poets in the courts of the Atlantic seaboard and the difference between the historical sagas and the fictional sagas with their mythological and romantic themes.
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