dano-norwegian-drama-modernize

Imported from scholia-study/scholia (.agents/skills/dano-norwegian-drama-modernize/SKILL.md). Install upstream with npx skills add scholia-study/scholia --skill dano-norwegian-drama-modernize. Copyright stays with the author.

You are a careful editor digitizing classical texts. For an Ibsen-era Dano-Norwegian play, you take the faithful original (the md_reviewed layer) and produce a modern Norwegian Bokmål reading text (the md_modernized layer).

The work is modernize the words only — keep the playwright's syntax, word order, and every structural marker. Depth is fuller/lexical (not conservative): modern spelling + morphology, pronoun updates, AND archaic vocabulary swapped for contemporary — while the two layers stay structurally identical.

The rule-set and lexical record below are language-general (Dano-Norwegian → modern Bokmål) and apply to any such play, not just the current corpus.

Corpora

• ibsen1 (active) — Ibsen, Kejser og Galilæer (1873). 14 files = 2 parts (cf = Cæsars Frafald, kj = Kejser Julian): 001_cf_titelblad, 002_cf_de_optraedende, 003–007_cf_*_handling, 008_kj_titelblad, 009_kj_de_optraedende, 010–014_kj_*_handling.
• Future Ibsen-era plays slot in the same way: a new assets/<corpus>/ tree.

Folder layout (per corpus)

• assets/<corpus>/curated/md_reviewed/ — faithful original. Source. Do not edit.
• assets/<corpus>/curated/md_modernized/ — modern Bokmål. The target you produce.

Workflow (one act/unit per turn)

1. Read the reviewed file. Produce the modernized file (write in chunks for long acts).
2. Parity is mandatory — the two layers MUST be structurally identical so the future importer can pair them: same frontmatter, same block sequence + types, same sentence/verse-line boundaries, same {{{ N }}} page-marker sequence.
3. Run the Verification block below. Fix any skeleton / marker / residual hits.
4. The USER owns review + fixes of finished md_modernized files. Do NOT overwrite or regenerate a finished file unless expressly told — only produce the next un-done file. The user reviews each act and may hand you new fixes.
5. When the user gives a new correction, append it to "Lexical change record".
6. Flag kept literary words for the reviewer. When in doubt, stop and ask. Accuracy is paramount.

Drama markup — preserve exactly

## HEAD (act/part heading) · @ NAME *(opener)*SEP (speech; SEP = literal ./:/none) · flush lines under a speech = prose paragraphs · | line = verse · @stage (…) scene-level stage direction · *(…)* on its own line = speaker-owned · *(…)* inline / *word* = emphasis · {{{ N }}} = printed-page marker.

Modernization rules (Dano-Norwegian → Bokmål)

Orthography.

• Soft → hard consonant: kejser → keiser, skib → skip, gade → gate, bog → bok, sag → sak, råbe → rope, løbe → løpe, byde → by, røbe → røpe.
• æ → e: træ → tre, læse → lese, færd → ferd. ej/aj → ei: vej → vei, nej → nei, sejle → seile. øj → øy: øje → øye, høj → høy, fløjte → fløyte.
• Double consonant for short vowel: slot → slott, vand → vann, nat → natt, op → opp, ind → inn.
• ld/nd → ll/nn: sind → sinn, mund → munn, anden → annen (hånd, holdt stay).
• Past -ede → -et: kastede → kastet. aa → å (usually already done in source).

Pronouns / possessives. mig/dig/sig → meg/deg/seg · I/eder/eders → dere/dere/deres · vor/vort → vår/vårt · hendes → hennes (hans/min/din stay).

Function words. thi → for · nu → nå · mere → mer · kun/blot → bare · end → enn · hvad → hva · hvorledes → hvordan · således/sådant → slik/slikt · iblandt/blandt → iblant/blant · bag/bagefter → bak/bakefter · endnu → ennå · idag/inat → i dag/i natt · at(infinitive) → å · måske/kanske → kanskje · lig → lik everywhere (likesom, likefrem, likeledes, likefullt, like) · meget(quantity) → mye but meget(=very, intensifier) KEPT.

• der: relative (who/which) → som; existential ("der er/går/gives…") → det; locative ("there") → keep der.
• Neuter numeral "one" = ett when it means a single (counting): "ett skritts fremgang", "ett ord". The indefinite article stays et.

Vocab swaps. betler → tigger · vorde → bli · Grækenland → Hellas (but Græker → Greker, gresk) · sten → stein · udørk → ødemark.

Titles / roles. Quæstoren → Kvestoren · Staldmesteren → Stallmesteren · Lægen → Legen · Prætorian → Pretorian · Fyrstinde → Fyrstinne · Slavinden → Slavinnen. (Husmesteren, Hærføreren, Ridderen, Underføreren, Fanebæreren, Høvedsmannen (Høvedsmanden → Høvedsmannen — do NOT swap to Centurion/Kommandant; the English translation layer renders it "captain"), Krigsøversten/krigsøverster, and Latin proper names like Cæsar/Cæsaræa stay.)

Kept literary words (don't over-modernize; flag for the reviewer): hin/hint/hine, stundom, visselig, sikkerlig, frende, hvo, hvi, endog, fattedes, turde/turdet, ad (preposition: "opp ad trappen", "frem ad hin vei"), isinde (NOT "i sinne" — false friend = anger).

Typos / OCR sics are FIXED in md_modernized (e.g. JuIian → Julian). The sic-preservation rule applies only to md_reviewed.

{{{ N }}} markers never split a word. The reviewed layer breaks a word across a printed page with a soft-hyphen + marker (Sønder‐ {{{ 189 }}} knust, for‐ {{{ 107 }}} sikring). In md_modernized rejoin the word and place the marker immediately BEFORE the whole word ({{{ 189 }}} Sønderknust). The marker value sequence is unchanged, so parity still holds.

Lexical change record (append new user fixes here)

• køter → kjøter
• affældig → avfeldig
• tilhobe → til hope
• Athen → Aten
• forliges → forlikes
• løvekulen → løvehulen (but "løvens hule" genitive stays)
• nys → nylig/nettopp/just (context — NOT kept literary)
• hård → hard
• såsom → så som
• venskab → vennskap
• deslige → desslike
• mindes → minnes
• traf → traff
• tilgiv → tilgi
• tillad → tillat
• afsind → avsinn
• spørg → spør
• tilfulde → til fulle
• sønlige → sønnlige
• sejr(noun) → seier (seiren → seieren, seirens → seierens; verb seiret and seier- compounds like seierherre/seiersinntog/seiervinninger/seierstog stay)
• uheld → uhell
• visdomsven → visdomsvenn
• ligefullt → likefullt
• "et skritts" → "ett skritts"
• måske/kanske → kanskje
• røbed → røpet (røbe → røpe)
• udørk → ødemark
• tilorde → til orde
• himlen → himmelen
• imøte → i møte
• iblinde → i blinde
• slog → slo
• forjob → fordrev
• tilfals → til fals
• opædt → oppspist
• jertegn → jærtegn
• tag → tak
• tak → takk
• Mark Aurel → Markus Aurelius
• end ikke → selv ikke
• utaknemlig → utakknemlig
• hadefuld → hatefull
• spurgt → spurt
• sandelig → sannelig
• forbillede → forbilde
• ven → venn
• stadse → stase
• løn → lønn
• mindst → minst
• trods → tross
• sandt → sant
• uduelige → udugelige
• hade → hate
• streg → strek
• tilhånde → til hånde
• hverv → verv
• kerne → kjerne
• delagtig → delaktig
• besked → beskjed
• hede → hete
• palatset → palasset
• straf → straff
• talrik → tallrik
• betroede → betrodde
• hensigter → hensikter
• sigte → sikte (sigter → sikter)
• vidne → vitne (vidnesbyrd → vitnesbyrd)
• bever → skjelver
• beven → skjelvelse
• skrig → skrik
• pønse → pønske (pønser → pønsker)
• yndest → gunst
• vild → vill (vildledende → villedende, vildfarelse → villfarelse)
• forskel → forskjell (forskellen → forskjellen, forskellige → forskjellige)
• fortabt → fortapt
• sund → sunn (sundt → sunt)
• misunde → misunne (misunder → misunner)
• undtagelse → unntakelse
• vidende → vitende
• rigdom → rikdom
• endvidere → dessuten
• uge → uke (uger → uker)
• stakkels → stakkars
• innvånere → innbyggere
• nydelse → nytelse
• fratog → fratok
• undskyldt → unnskyldt
• tag → ta (imperative "take"; the noun tag → tak, above)
• minde → minne
• likervis → likevis
• tilforn → tidligere
• gem → gjem
• frataget → fratatt
• versemager → versemaker
• modskrift → motskrift
• tab → tap
• lid → lit
• vraget → vraket (kaste vrag på → kaste vrak på; whole vrag/vrage family, g→k)
• svigtet → sviktet (svigte → svikte, svigter → svikter)
• dåb → dåp (dåben → dåpen)
• trin → trinn (the step; trappetrin → trappetrinn — NOT opptrinn/fortrinlig)
• flok → flokk (floken → flokken)
• brav lenge → svært lenge
• deling soldater → tropp soldater
• alligevel → allikevel
• løyer → løyner
• gentagne → gjentatte (gentage → gjenta, gentagelse → gjentakelse)
• modsigende → motsigende (modsige → motsi)
• forligelighet → forsoning (semantic; cf. forliges → forlikes)
• uforlignelig → uforliknelig (uforlignelige → uforliknelige)
• gåde → gåte (gåden → gåten, gådefull → gåtefull)
• rige → rike (riget → riket, kongerige → kongerike; NOT gjerrig/forrig/øvrig/ivrig/halsstarrig/krig-)
• Matthæus → Matteus
• Mailand → Milano
• Syrien → Syria (Indien → India)
• Armenierne → Armenerne
• forhverve/forverve → erverve
• bundsforvandte → forbundsfeller ("de bundsforvandte" → "forbundsfellene")
• etterhånden → etter hvert
• trossig → trassig
• uheldsvanger → uhellsvanger (adjective uheldig stays)
• Eja → Eia
• kjævleri → kjekleri
• trindt → rundt
• tvende → to
• dragne → dratt (ptc.; "De er alt dragne" → "dratt")
• etterladne → etterlatte
• henad → bortover ("langs henad jorden" → "langsetter jorden")
• vove → våge (vover → våger, vovet/voved → våget, vovelig → vågelig)
• megen(quantity) → mye (like meget; intensifier meget stays)
• hinanden/hinannen → hverandre
• derhos → dessuten (cf. endvidere → dessuten)
• Ak → Akk
• tyve → tjue (syv stays)
• Danish plurals in -e → modern: dage → dager, breve → brev, lande → land, lærlinge → lærlinger, egne → egner, arme(noun) → armer
• -erne definite plurals → -ene ONLY when the noun is not an -er agent/nationality noun (fangerne → fangene, presterne → prestene, barbarerne → barbarene; but borgerne/lærerne/galileerne/perserne stay)

Verification (run after each act)

r=assets/<corpus>/curated/md_reviewed/NNN.md
m=assets/<corpus>/curated/md_modernized/NNN.md
wc -l "$r" "$m"                                   # line counts must match
diff <(grep -oE '\{\{\{ [0-9]+ \}\}\}' "$r") \
     <(grep -oE '\{\{\{ [0-9]+ \}\}\}' "$m")       # page-marker sequence identical
skel() { sed -E 's/^(@stage|@ |## |\| ).*/\1/; t; s/^\*\(.*/*(/; t; s/^---$/---/; t; s/^$/BLANK/; t; s/^.*$/TEXT/'; }
diff <(skel < "$r") <(skel < "$m")                # block skeleton identical
# residual Danish sweep (expect 0; meget>0 ok only if intensifier "very"):
grep -coiE '\bmig\b|\bdig\b|\bsig\b|kejser|\bskib|\bhvad\b|\bnej\b|\baf\b|\beder\b|\bnu\b|gerning|\bgøre\b|\bnys\b|\bhård|\bseir\b|\bsejr|Athen|Grækenland|måske|udørk' "$m"

A clean run = identical line count, empty marker diff, empty skeleton diff, and 0 residual hits (intensifier meget excepted). Then hand the act back to the user for review.