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Norse-Icelandic Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages - an electronic edition
, 2001 This presentation aims to describe an international project to edit the corpus of Old Norse-Icelandic skaldic poetry and to outline some issues related to electronic aspects of the project, both in its organisation and in its publication. Prof. Clunies Ross will outline the nature of the project and the place of the electronic edition.
Wills, Tarrin, Clunies Ross, Margaret
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How Formulaic is a Skaldic Formula? On the Function of Echoes in Dróttkvætt Poetry
NeophilologusAbstract This article addresses the notion of formulaicity and the question of its applicability to the Old Norse skaldic corpus, a substantial part of which belongs to the pre-literate period of poetic composition (c. 850–1150). With few exceptions, scholars maintain that formulaicity, intended as an aid in versification, played a limited ...
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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages
Mondes normands médiévaux, 2014 openaire +2 more sources
, 2014 In order to investigate the compositional techniques of skaldic poetry and determine if any oral formulae or other compositional methods played a role in the creation of skaldic poetry, I have collected the alliterating and rhyming words from 1486 couplets by 68 different poets, including 19 anonymous poems, and investigated whether any of these word ...
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Kate Heslop. Viking Mediologies: A New History of Skaldic Poetics.
Scandinavian-Canadian StudiesKatelin Parsons
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