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1. Skaldic Project Editors' Manual 2. Reconstruction of poems H. Previous attempts to arrange the corpus

H. Previous attempts to arrange the corpus

This is not currently part of the peer-reviewed material of the project. Do not cite as a research publication.

The uncertainty inherent in many aspects of reconstruction is reflected in the often wide differences between the existing attempts, which include:

1. Sveinbjörn Egilsson and Finnur Jónsson ed. 1880-7. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar. Rpt. 1966, III. Copenhagen: Arnamagnæan Commission.

Has poems reconstructed, first lines only cited, as appendix to Skáldatal.

2. Vigfusson, Gudbrand and F. York Powell eds. 1883. Corpus Poeticum Boreale. Rpt. 1965. Oxford: Clarendon.

Selection.

3. Finnur Jónsson ed. 1912-15. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. Rpt. 1967-73. Copenhagen: Gyldendal

Order adopted unchanged in E. A. Kock ed. 1946-9. Den norsk-isländska Skaldediktningen. Lund: Gleerup.

4. Bjarne Fidjestøl. 1982. Det norrøne fyrstediktet. Øvre Ervik: Alvheim & Eide.

Reconstructed by reference to verse numbers in Skj; summary 169-77. Royal panegyrics only.

5. Discussions of individual poems in editions, articles and monographs, or published or unpublished theses.

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