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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages is a project which is editing the corpus of Old Norse-Icelandic skaldic poetry.[1], along with all poetry written down in runes. The project will publish nine volumes and is supported by a website. The corpus comprises 5797 verses by 447 skalds preserved in 718 manuscripts.[2] As of October 2021, five volumes have been published, all of which can be accessed via the project's website.[3]

Anatoly Liberman wrote in a review of volume 7: "As far as the textual criticism and decipherment of skaldic poetry are concerned, after this edition not much is left for anyone to add".[4]

List of volumes

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  • Whaley, Diana, ed. (2012). Poetry from the Kings' Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Vol. 1.
  • Gade, Kari Ellen, ed. (2009). Poetry from the Kings' Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Vol. 2.
  • Gade, Kari Ellen; Marold, Edith, eds. (2017). Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Vol. 3.
  • Nordal, Guðrún (ed.). Poetry on Icelandic History. Vol. 4. Forthcoming
  • Wills, Tarrin; Gade, Kari Ellen; Clunies Ross, Margaret (eds.). Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders. Vol. 5. Forthcoming
  • Marold, Edith; Busch, Vivian; Krüger, Jana (eds.). Runic Poetry. Vol. 6. Forthcoming
  • Clunies Ross, Margaret, ed. (2012). Poetry on Christian Subjects. Vol. 7.
  • Clunies Ross, Margaret, ed. (2017). Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Vol. 8.
  • Burrows, Hannah, ed. (2012). Bibliography and Indices. Vol. 9. Forthcoming

References

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  1. ^ Wills, Tarrin (2017-07-27). "Skaldic Project - Cross-Platform Interface". Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages. Archived from the original on 17 December 2019.
  2. ^ Wills, Tarrin (2018-08-17). "Skaldic Project: Statistics". Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages. Archived from the original on 5 December 2019.
  3. ^ Wills, Tarrin (19 July 2017). "Skaldic Project - volumes". Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages. Archived from the original on 20 October 2021.
  4. ^ Liberman, Anatoly (2009). "Review of Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages, vol. 7. Part 1: The Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. Part 2: The Fourteenth Century". The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 108 (4): 550–554. doi:10.1353/egp.0.0083. ISSN 0363-6941. JSTOR 20722782. S2CID 161996121.
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