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Old English style [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Pons-Sanz, Sara
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Early Eddic poetry (c. 850‑1000): The other type of pagan court poetry?

open access: yes
Old Norse poetry is commonly divided into Eddic and skaldic poetry. Skaldic poetry is generally connected to the court, but scholars rarely mention possible contexts of composition of Eddic poetry, and no overview of indications has been published. This chapter presents such an overview. In fact, the evidence is relatively rich and points unambiguously
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Orality, literacy, and the making of 13th century Eddic Poetry

open access: yes, 2007
The Codex Regius of the Elder Edda (GKS 2365 4to), a medieval manuscript wrought with speculation, who created it and for what purpose? It has long been assumed that eddic poetry was oral poetry and yet this unique codex of mythological and heroic eddic poems seems to betray every arguable sign of literary workings.
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