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Early Eddic poetry (c. 850‑1000): The other type of pagan court poetry?

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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Old English style [PDF]

, 2015
Pons-Sanz, Sara
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Orality, literacy, and the making of 13th century Eddic Poetry

, 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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Getting a Handle on Eddic Poetry

Elore, 2017
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Review of Carolyne Larrington, Judy Quinn & Brittany Schorn (red.), A Handbook to Eddic Poetry: Myths and Legends of Early Scandinavia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2016. xii + 413 s

Scripta Islandica, 2017
Lars Lönnroth
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Pale Fire and Old Norse Literature [PDF]

, 2017
Antonsson, HT
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The eddic tradition : a study of the mode of transmission of eddic mythological poetry in the middle ages

, 1990
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A Handbook to Eddic Poetry

2016
This is the first comprehensive and accessible survey in English of Old Norse eddic poetry: a remarkable body of literature rooted in the Viking Age, which is a critical source for the study of early Scandinavian myths, poetics, culture and society. Dramatically recreating the voices of the legendary past, eddic poems distil moments of high emotion as ...
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Eddic poetry and heroic legend

2016
Introduction In his preface to a recent collection of essays on eddic heroic poetry and heroic legend, Tom Shippey remarks on the nineteenth-century realisation that ‘there was something recognisable in the heroic poems of what came to be called “the Elder Edda”’ (Shippey 2013: xiv).
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Eddic poetry and the imagery of stone monuments

2016
Many myths and legends preserved in eddic poetry had likely circulated in various artistic media long before they were shaped into the poetic forms that have come down to us in the Codex Regius collection of eddic poems (GKS 2365 4°; c. 1270) and other manuscripts.
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