Norwegian hand & typed 1850-1960

The model is based mainly on texts from three Norwegian tradition archives, published on samla.no. SAMLA is a collaboration between The Ethno-Folkloristic Archive at the University of Bergen (owner), The Norwegian Folklore Archives at the University of Oslo, The Norwegian Ethnological Research at the Norwegian Folk Museum. The model is trained on a variety of Norwegian handwritten dialects, including bokmål and nynorsk, and some material from the transition phase between Norwegian and Danish in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The material describes Norwegian culture and nature, by for instance folklore, legends, fairy tales, letters, diaries, questionaries and descriptions of crafts and traditions. The base model used is “NorHand 1820-1940”, from the National Library of Norway. The training material also include some typed text, as some documents contains both. Additional material has been provided from the archive of The Royal Court, Norway. Due to the ownership and age of some of the material, the training data is not published, but parts can be accessed by request. The model is developed by Therese Foldvik (University of Oslo).