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The following list is restricted to substantial changes, and does not include instances of correction of minor errors or inconsistencies.
1. Introduction
Changes in third edition:
· E: section on the Supplement
· G: replaced outdated section on Publication Plans with §6 of Supplement
· J: new section from Suppement §5 Quality control
4. Guidelines on presentation for submission
Changes in second edition:
· A-1-i: Use ReykholtTimes font
· A-2: Corpus arrangement has changed
· A-3-c: Include reference to all mss in Introduction to poems
· B-2-a: Present helmingar vertically, not horizontally
· B-2-h: Include Finnur’s numbering and categorisation
· B-7-c: Mark kennings with curly brackets
· B-9-m: Stricter format for notes
· B-10: Transcriptions
Changes in third edition
· A-2-b-v: New section on attribution to more than one skald, from Refinements
· B-2-e-v,vi: Question marks and quotations from Refinements
· B-3: Major expansions to this section
· B-3-a-iii: Use ONP pagination or foliation, except in Flat
· B-3-a-iv: Format for marginalia
· B-3-a-v: Page ranges from Refinements
· B-3-b-v: Format for mss used intermittently
· B-5: Various additions to sections a, d, e, g, h, k, o from Refinements
· B-5-f: Moved to a and replaced with format for emendations from Refinements
· B-5-p: Reference to B-3-a for ms reference format
· B-5-q, r, s, t, u, w: new sections added
· B-6-e: Suggested format for multiple contexts from Refinements
· B-7-d: Moved to 7-e and given reference to Appendix 2; replaced with section on emendations from Refinments
· B-9: Added bits to n, p from Refinements
· B-9-j: Section on structure from Refinements added
· B-9-m: Replaced with new section from Refinements
· B-9-o: Added lengthy section from Refinements
· B-10: Transcriptions modified with specific instructions for younger manuscripts
· B-10-e: Partial line breaks
5. Guidelines on normalisation
Changes in third edition:
· C: Guidelines on the editing of 14th-century verse
6. Sigla for sources
Changes in second edition
· A-1: Four possible methods of referring to mss
· B: New section on how to use ms sigla
· C: Sigla for prose sources of skaldic poetry has been modified
· D, E: New sections
Changes in third edition
· C: Some new text sigla from supplement
· D: Removed and incorporated into ch. 14
· E: Removed and incorporated into ch. 14
7. Guidelines for the English translation
Changes in second edition
· 2-h: Use angle brackets (<...>) for glosses to heiti.
· 2-j: Snalyse kennings with curly brackets ({...})
· 2-j-v: Use stricter format for glosses to kenning referents
· 2-j-viii: Include gloss of original syntax in inverted kennings
· 2-j-ix: New format specific to ofljóst constructions
Changes in third edition
· 2-c-iii: Added section on ethnic names from Supplement
· 2-h-i: Added clarification of heiti vocabulary from Supplement
· 2-h-ii: New section on double-meanings in heiti from Supplement
· 2-h-iii: Former section ii
· 2-j-viii to x: Removed and referred to Appendix 2
· 4-b, c: literal translations and clarifications emended
· 4-d: Added section on understatement
8. General conventions, abbreviations and bibliographical guidelines
Changes in second edition
· I-A: Some changes
· I-C-1: New section on in-text referencing
· I-C-2,3,4: Minor changes
· I-C-5,6: New sections
· I-F: Use British English
· I-G ff: New material and changes to earlier recommendations
· II ff: New sections on bibliographic references
Changes in third edition
· I-A: New sections on kenning and poems types from Refinements
· I-C-4: New section on dictionary references from Refinements
· I´-D: More abbreviations from Supplement
· I-E: More abbreviations from Supplement and Refinements
· I-J-b: New section on normalisation of names from Refinements
· I-J-c: Renumbered from b
· I-J-2-b: Normalisation of nicknames from Supplement
· I-J-2-c: Translation of nicknames from Refinements
· III-E-ii: Some new abbreviations from Refinements
9. Sample verses
· I: Rdr verses replaced with database-generated version
· II-VI: removed from manual
12. Analysing and formatting kennings
· New chapter from the Supplement
13. Web submission instructions
· New chapter from the Supplement
14. Sigla for the corpus
· New chapter