2. Reconstruction of poems
This is not currently part of the peer-reviewed material of the project. Do not cite as a research publication.
This chapter concerns the identification and ordering of extended poems and lausavísur. Section 1 contains some basic guidelines on the practice to be adopted in the new edition, while the remainder of the chapter offers some headings under which the complexities can be considered. Comments on extended poems are based mainly on the secular encomiastic poems.
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- subsections
- A. Overview: handling of the corpus
- B. Evidence for authorship
- C. Characteristics of lausavísur
- D. Characteristics of verses orginally belonging to extended poems
- E. Evidence for existence of particular poems
- F. Evidence for assigning verses to particular poems
- G. Evidence for ordering verses within extended poems
- H. Previous attempts to arrange the corpus
- J. Presentation of (evidence for) reconstruction