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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 6

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

editors in volume 6
Vivian Busch - verses: 46
Jana Krüger - verses: 79
Ann-Dörte Kyas - verses: 16
Edith Marold - verses: 81
Jonas Nordby - verses: 1
Ray Page - verses: 16
Katharina Seidel - verses: 20
skalds in volume 6
Anonymous Rune Poems - EM
   poems: 2; verses entered: 32/32; remaining: 0
Middle Ages - EM
   poems: 16; verses entered: 42/45; remaining: 3
Older Futhark - EM
   poems: 11; verses entered: 1/12; remaining: 11
Viking Age - EM
   poems: 17; verses entered: 135/135; remaining: 0
poems and verse groups in volume 6
individual verses in volume 6
sagas/prose works in volume 6

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