Poetry on Christian subjects / Margaret Cluies Ross, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clunies Ross, Margaret.

Series:

Skaldic poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages ; v. 7.

Skaldic poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages ; v. 7

Language:

English

Old Norse

Subjects (All):

Scalds and scaldic poetry.

Christian poetry.

Religious poetry, Old Norse.

Iceland.

Religious poetry, Old Norse--Iceland.

Genre:

Christian poetry.

Physical Description:

2 volumes (lxix, 1040 pages) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Brepols, 2007.

Language Note:

Critical matter in English, text of poetry in Old Norse.

Summary:

This is the first volume of an envisaged nine that are the fruits of an international project. The project aims to produce a new edition of the known corpus of Norse-Icelandic skaldic poetry, including runic inscriptions in metrical form. This new edition consists of a critical edition with an English translation. It reexamines the manuscript evidence for the poetic texts and their locations.

Contents:

pt. 1. The twelfth and thirteenth centuries

pt. 2. The fourteenth century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9782503518930

2503518931

OCLC:

150339852