i. (Preface)
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The present handbook acts as a supplement to and update of previous editions of the Editors' Manual, and should be used in conjunction with the information provided there. It includes material useful for Contributing Editors deriving from the Third Edition, originally intended for the use of General Editors and Research Associates, and reflects changes and additions to the guidelines as agreed at the General Editors' meetings in 2005, 2006 and 2007. This material supersedes equivalent information in previous editions, and Contributing Editors should follow the guidelines given in the present edition where these are additional or representative of changes of practice. Please note that owing to continuing development of the database interface, the procedure for web submission is subject to ongoing modification and instructions have consequently not been included here; guidelines for this process will be kept up-to-date on the skaldic website. The list of sigla for the corpus (which is large and also subject to revision) has similarly been excluded from this handbook; the most up-to-date version can be found under the 'database' tab on the website, headed 'skj refs' for material in Skjaldedigtning or 'SkP refs' for material new to our edition (you need to be logged in to access this information).
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