v1.0.0 — Linux and Windows support (ISLEX 2026-02)

All 14 ISLEX editions now run on Linux and Windows, not just macOS.

IcelandicNordic-GoldenDict-v1.0.0.zip is a StarDict build for GoldenDict-ng, generated from the same XML as the macOS bundles. Every edition is in the one zip, with every BÍN-indexed inflected form intact, so selecting hestinum in a text resolves to hestur. GoldenDict's Scan Popup is the direct analogue of macOS Look Up; on Linux/X11 it is arguably better, since merely highlighting a word fires the lookup with no keystroke.

That build path needs nothing but Python 3 — no Dictionary Development Kit, no macOS, and none of the apple.com DTD-fetch flakiness that can abort a 14-bundle make install partway through. It is markedly faster and more reliable, and it runs on Linux directly if you have the ISLEX data there.

Setup is not guessable — read docs/GOLDENDICT.md. StarDict has no stylesheet slot, so article-style.css installs separately (one stylesheet covers all 14, as Nordic.css does on macOS). It also covers grouping fourteen dictionaries so results stay readable, and the Wayland QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb caveat.

Version scheme change. Previous releases tracked the ISLEX data version (v2026.02). Now that the repo ships two platforms and the version describes the build rather than the data, this moves to semantic versioning starting at v1.0.0. The underlying ISLEX release is unchanged — still ISLEX 2026-02.

macOS users: all 14 .dictionary.zip assets are byte-identical to the v2026.02 ones. The dictionary data has not changed — only the new build target.

Everything here is CC BY-SA 4.0, ISLEX and BÍN alike, so the GoldenDict build is publishable on exactly the same terms and carries the same share-alike obligation. See CREDITS.md for BÍN's required verbatim credit line.

The repo was also renamed from icelandic-nordic-dictionary-mac, which stopped being accurate. GitHub redirects the old URLs.

ISLEX 2026-02 compiled dictionaries

Compiled macOS Dictionary.app bundles built from ISLEX 2026-02, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

License and attribution (required if you redistribute these files further)

Data: ISLEX — Icelandic-Scandinavian multilingual dictionary (2026-02), edited by
Þórdís Úlfarsdóttir and Halldóra Jónsdóttir, published by
Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum (The Árni Magnússon Institute for
Icelandic Studies), in collaboration with partner institutions in Denmark, Norway,
Sweden, the Faroe Islands and Finland.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — you may
share and adapt these files, including commercially, provided you give appropriate
attribution and distribute any derivative under this same license.

Source dataset: https://repository.clarin.is/repository/xmlui/handle/20.500.12537/376

Full attribution, including all six participating national teams, is in
CREDITS.md.

Build tooling that produced these bundles is MIT-equivalent (see
LICENSE);
the dictionary data itself remains CC BY-SA 4.0 as noted above.

Installing

1. Download the .dictionary.zip for the language pair(s) you want.
2. Unzip it.
3. Move the resulting NAME.dictionary folder into ~/Library/Dictionaries/.
4. Open Dictionary.app → Settings → enable it.

What's included

14 bundles: one Icelandic→Language and one Language→Icelandic dictionary for
each of Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish, Faroese, and
Finnish, plus two combined "all Nordic languages at once" editions
(IcelandicNordic and NordicIcelandic). Icelandic-headword entries include
BÍN-powered inflection tables (declensions/conjugations) via the islenska
package.

See README.md for full details.