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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages
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Volumes in printed edition

1. Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035
    Published 2012, ed. Diana Whaley
    total verses: 717; transcribed main mss: 648 (90%); entered verses: 716 (100%)

2. Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300
    Published 2009, ed. Kari Ellen Gade
    total verses: 810; transcribed main mss: 408 (50%); entered verses: 810 (100%)

3. Poetry from Treatises on Poetics
    Published 2017, ed. Kari Ellen Gade, Edith Marold
    total verses: 835; transcribed main mss: 429 (51%); entered verses: 833 (100%)

4. Poetry on Icelandic History
    Forthcoming 2020, ed. Guðrún Nordal
    total verses: 506; transcribed main mss: 233 (46%); entered verses: 290 (57%)

5. Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders
    Forthcoming 2019, ed. Tarrin Wills, Kari Ellen Gade, Margaret Clunies Ross
    total verses: 733; transcribed main mss: 545 (74%); entered verses: 551 (75%)

6. Runic Poetry
    Forthcoming 2019, ed. Edith Marold, Vivian Busch, Jana Krüger
    total verses: 224; transcribed main mss: 1 (0%); entered verses: 210 (94%)

7. Poetry on Christian Subjects
    Published 2007, ed. Margaret Clunies Ross
    total verses: 1111; transcribed main mss: 895 (81%); entered verses: 1111 (100%)

8. Poetry in fornaldarsögur
    Published 2017, ed. Margaret Clunies Ross
    total verses: 855; transcribed main mss: 679 (79%); entered verses: 854 (100%)

Volume 4

(contents of printed volume | first lines of verses in volume | bibliography | kennings)

editors in volume 4
Margaret Clunies Ross - verses: 1
Kari Ellen Gade - verses: 35
Guðrún Nordal - verses: 347
Kate Heslop - verses: 1
Edith Marold - verses: 1
Richard Perkins - verses: 32
Russell Poole - verses: 1
Soffía Guðný Guðmundsdóttir - verses: 5
Valgerður Erna Þorvaldsdóttir - verses: 23
Diana Whaley - verses: 4
Kirsten Wolf - verses: 57
skalds in volume 4
Arngrímr ábóti Brandsson - GN
   poems: 3; verses entered: 62/69; remaining: 7
Ámundi Árnason - AE
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/5; remaining: 5
Árni ábóti Jónsson - GN
   poems: 2; verses entered: 79/81; remaining: 2
Árni óreiða Magnússon - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Brandr - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Brandr inn víðfǫrli - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Dagstyggr Þórðarson - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Eilífr Snorrason - VEÞ
   poems: 1; verses entered: 3/3; remaining: 0
Einarr draumr Þorsteinsson - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Einarr Gilsson - GN
   poems: 3; verses entered: 78/78; remaining: 0
Eyjólfr forni - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Gizurr Þorvaldsson - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 2/2; remaining: 0
Glúmr Þorkelsson - RMP
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Grímr Hjaltason - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/4; remaining: 4
Guðbrandr í Svǫlum - VEÞ
   poems: 1; verses entered: 1/1; remaining: 0
Guðmundr Ásbjarnarson - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Guðmundr Galtason - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 1/5; remaining: 4
Guðmundr Oddson - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/8; remaining: 8
Guðmundr Svertingsson - VEÞ
   poems: 1; verses entered: 11/11; remaining: 0
Gunnarr Lambason - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Guthormr kǫrtr Helgason - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Hallbjǫrn Oddsson - RMP
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Hallstein Þengilsson - RMP
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Haukr Valdísarson - KEG
   poems: 1; verses entered: 27/27; remaining: 0
Hásteinn Hrómundarson - RMP
   poems: 1; verses entered: 1/8; remaining: 7
Heinrekr - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Helgi dýr Skefilsson - RMP
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Helgi trausti Óláfsson - RMP
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Hjalti Skeggjason - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Hrómundr halti Eyvindarson - RMP
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/2; remaining: 2
Ingimundr Einarsson - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/3; remaining: 3
Ingjaldr Geirmundarson - GN
   poems: 3; verses entered: 0/13; remaining: 13
Jón Þorvaldsson - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Kolbeinn Tumason - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/9; remaining: 9
Loptr Pálsson - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Magnús Þórðarson - VEÞ
   poems: 1; verses entered: 2/2; remaining: 0
Ǫgmundr sneis Þorvarðsson - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/2; remaining: 2
Ormr svínfellingr Jónsson - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Óláfr Brynjólfsson - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Páll Þorsteinsson - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Rúnólfr Ketilsson - AE
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Sigvatr Sturluson - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/2; remaining: 2
Skáldhallr - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/6; remaining: 6
Snjólfr - KEG
   poems: 1; verses entered: 6/6; remaining: 0
Sturla Bárðarson - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 1/3; remaining: 2
Sturla Sigvatsson - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Styrbjǫrn - RMP
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Svertingr Þorleifsson - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/2; remaining: 2
Tannr Bjarnason - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Tjǫrvi inn háðsami - RMP
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Vémundr Hrólfsson - RMP
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Þorbjǫrn þyna - RMP
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Þorgils Oddason - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Þormóðr Óláfsson - SGG
   poems: 2; verses entered: 2/10; remaining: 8
Þorsteinn tjaldstœðing Ásgrímsson - RMP
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Þorvaldr inn víðfǫrli Koðránsson - DW
   poems: 1; verses entered: 1/1; remaining: 0
Þorvarðr tréfótr - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Þorvarðr Þorgeirsson - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/2; remaining: 2
Þórðr rúfeyjaskáld - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Þórðr vazfirðingr - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/2; remaining: 2
Þórir jǫkull - GN
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Þórir snepill Ketilsson - RMP
   poems: 1; verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
poems and verse groups in volume 4
Lausavísa from Guðmundar saga biskups B - GN
   verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Lausavísur from Guðmundar saga biskups A - SGG
   verses entered: 3/3; remaining: 0
Lausavísur from Hrafns saga - GN
   verses entered: 4/9; remaining: 5
Lausavísur from Kristni saga - DW
   verses entered: 2/2; remaining: 0
Lausavísur from Landnámabók - RMP
   verses entered: 1/8; remaining: 7
Lausavísur from Sturlunga saga - GN
   verses entered: 0/59; remaining: 59
Bárðardrápa - RMP
   verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Hafgerðingadrápa - RMP
   verses entered: 0/2; remaining: 2
​Stanzas possibly attributable to Snorri Sturluson - GN
   verses entered: 0/2; remaining: 2
Bragi inn gamli Boddason, Lausavísur - MCR
   verses entered: 1/1; remaining: 0
Máni, Lausavísa - KEG
   verses entered: 1/1; remaining: 0
Óláfr hvítaskáld Þórðarson, Stanzas in praise of Árón Hjǫrleifsson - GN
   verses entered: 0/2; remaining: 2
Óláfr svartaskáld Leggsson, Lausavísa - GN
   verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Snorri Sturluson, Lausavísur - GN
   verses entered: 0/2; remaining: 2
Snorri Sturluson, Skúladrápa - GN
   verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
Sturla Þórðarson, Lausavísur - GN
   verses entered: 0/4; remaining: 4
Sturla Þórðarson, Þorgilsdrápa - GN
   verses entered: 0/3; remaining: 3
Sturla Þórðarson, Þverárvísur - GN
   verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
individual verses in volume 4
​Stanzas possibly attributable to Snorri Sturluson: 1 (GN), 2 (GN)
   verses entered: 0/2; remaining: 2
Snorri Sturluson, Lausavísur: 3 (GN), 4 (GN)
   verses entered: 0/2; remaining: 2
Þorleifr jarlsskáld Rauðfeldarson, Lausavísur: 1b (KEG)
   verses entered: 1/1; remaining: 0
Þórarinn svarti máhlíðingr Þórólfsson, Máhlíðingavísur: 9a (KSH)
   verses entered: 0/1; remaining: 1
sagas/prose works in volume 4
Annálar - KEG
   verses entered: 0/0; remaining: 0
Árna saga biskups - GN
   verses entered: 0/0; remaining: 0
Geirmundar þáttr - GN
   verses entered: 0/0; remaining: 0
Guðmundar saga Arasonar - GN
   verses entered: 0/0; remaining: 0
Guðmundar saga biskups B - GN
   verses entered: 0/0; remaining: 0
Guðmundar saga biskups C - GN
   verses entered: 0/0; remaining: 0
Guðmundar saga biskups D - GN
   verses entered: 0/0; remaining: 0
Guðmundar saga dýra - GN
   verses entered: 0/0; remaining: 0
Hauksbók - GN
   verses entered: 0/0; remaining: 0
Hrafns saga Sveinbjarnarsonar - GN
   verses entered: 0/0; remaining: 0
Hrafns saga Sveinbjarnarsonar in sérstaka - VEÞ
   verses entered: 0/0; remaining: 0
Hungrvaka - GN
   verses entered: 0/0; remaining: 0
Íslendinga saga - GN
   verses entered: 0/0; remaining: 0
Íslendingabók - GN
   verses entered: 0/0; remaining: 0
Jóns saga helga - KEG
   verses entered: 0/0; remaining: 0
Kristni saga - GN
   verses entered: 0/0; remaining: 0
Landnámabók - RMP
   verses entered: 1/1; remaining: 0
Landnámabók Þb
   verses entered: 0/0; remaining: 0
Páls saga biskups - GN
   verses entered: 0/0; remaining: 0
Prestssaga Guðmundar góða - GN
   verses entered: 0/0; remaining: 0
Sturlu saga - GN
   verses entered: 0/0; remaining: 0
Sturlu þáttr - GN
   verses entered: 0/0; remaining: 0
Sturlunga saga - GN
   verses entered: 0/0; remaining: 0
Þorgils saga ok Hafliða - GN
   verses entered: 0/0; remaining: 0
Þorgils saga skarða - GN
   verses entered: 0/0; remaining: 0
Þorsteins þáttr Tjaldstœðings - RMP
   verses entered: 0/0; remaining: 0
Þórðar saga kakala - GN
   verses entered: 0/0; remaining: 0

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