Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages |
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1. Skaldic Project Editors' Manual 4. Abbreviations and technical terms 11. Subscriber terms and conditions Vol. I. Poetry for Scandinavian Rulers 1: From Mythological Times to c. 1035 Vol. II. Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: from c. 1035 to c. 1300 Vol. III. Poetry from Treatises on Poetics Vol. VII. Poetry on Christian Subjects Vol. VIII. Poetry in the fornaldarsǫgur |
8. Web interface help (TW)Instructions for the database web interface. This is very much in progress! The web interface.... People involved with the project are issued with a username and password, which gives access to additional information of interest to those involved in the project. Note: because of the expanded access that will be now provided to the database, we have had to increase security. This means that you can only be logged in to one browser on one computer at a time. stay logged in: this option will set a 'cookie' for the computer and browser being used, so that the user is not automatically logged out when the browser is closed. The user will stay logged in for three days. This option should only be used on a private computer. The main way in to the skaldic database... The following information can be searched simply through selecting the main links on the web interface: Skalds and other speakers of verse: when you enter a search string in the box at the top of the skalds view and press [enter] or click on the search icon, the database will search for that string (series of letters) in all the names of skalds and their abbreviations. Poems and groups of stanzas/verses: the poem/verse group listing can be used to search names and abbreviations of poems in the same way as in the skald list. The search results will include all poems, including non-skaldic ones such as eddic poems and rímur. Texts (sagas and other prose works): use the search field to search all prose works in the database as above. The search results include non-skaldic prose works, that is, sagas and other works which don’t have skaldic verse. Mss and inscriptions: searching ms. and inscriptions sigla works the same way as above. The search will match any part of the ms. shelfmark, abbreviated siglum or name. For best results, search for the main number of the ms. Search strings The search string treats the following letters as equivalent: a / á So ‘an’ will match both ‘Án’ and ‘Angantýr’. But the database treats the following letters as different from the above and each other: æ, ö, œ, ø, þ To assist users with keyboards that don’t have the above letters, buttons are put after the search field with these letters. When you click on the button, the letter will be inserted at the end of the search field. Two wildcard characters are also available: _ (underscore) matches a single character in the database; This document describes the display of information about skalds, poems and verses (stanzas) in the database web interface. This document describes the display of information about ... This document describes the display of information about ... Use the following codes in regular expression searches.
The database was converted to Unicode (UTF-8 encoding) on 24 August 2009. This has caused some changes to the way the database works. It is recommended that you install a MUFI-compliant Unicode font such as Junicode or Andron Scriptor Web. Assistants on the project should contact Tarrin to obtain the font used for quality control (Adobe Garamond Pro). Notes:
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© Skaldic Project Academic Body, unless otherwise noted. Database structure and interface developed by Tarrin Wills. All users of material on this database are reminded that its content may be either subject to copyright restrictions or is the property of the custodians of linked databases that have given permission for members of the skaldic project to use their material for research purposes. Those users who have been given access to as yet unpublished material are further reminded that they may not use, publish or otherwise manipulate such material except with the express permission of the individual editor of the material in question and the General Editor of the volume in which the material is to be published. Applications for permission to use such material should be made in the first instance to the General Editor of the volume in question. All information that appears in the published volumes has been thoroughly reviewed. If you believe some information here is incorrect please contact Tarrin Wills with full details. |