Prof. Russell Poole (RGP)Russell Poole is Distinguished University Professor, emeritus, in the Department of English at Western Ontario University, Canada. His research centres upon skaldic and other medieval poetry in Scandinavia and the British Isles. His publications include Viking Poems on War and Peace (Toronto, 1991), Old English Wisdom Poetry (Cambridge, 1998), Skaldsagas (Berlin, 2000) and, with Antonina Harbus, Verbal Encounters: Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse studies for Roberta Frank (Toronto, 2004). He is current Editor-in-Chief of Viking and Medieval Scandinavia. allocated stanzas by volume:
• Vol. I: 95
• Vol. II: 6
• Vol. III: 9
• Vol. IV: 1
• Vol. VIII: 171
poems and verse groups:
• Anonymous Poems, Liðsmannaflokkr • Eyjólfr dáðaskáld, Bandadrápa • Eyvindr skáldaspillir Finnsson, Háleygjatal • Eyvindr skáldaspillir Finnsson, Lausavísur • Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I • Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá II • Guthormr sindri, Hákonardrápa • Halli stirði, Flokkr • Haraldr hárfagri Hálfdanarson, Snæfríðardrápa • Ormr Steinþórsson, Fragments • Ormr Steinþórsson, Poem about a woman • Óláfr inn helgi Haraldsson, Lausavísur • Sigvatr Þórðarson, Nesjavísur • Steinarr, Poem about a woman • Tindr Hallkelsson, Hákonardrápa • Torf-Einarr Rǫgnvaldsson, Lausavísur
other individual stanzas:
prose works:
• Breta saga
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