Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages explained

Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages is a project which is editing the corpus of Old Norse-Icelandic skaldic poetry.^[1], along with all poetry written down in runes. The project will publish nine volumes and is supported by a website. The corpus comprises 5797 verses by 447 skalds preserved in 718 manuscripts.^[2] As of October 2021, five volumes have been published, all of which can be accessed via the project's website.^[3]

Anatoly Liberman wrote in a review of volume 7: "As far as the textual criticism and decipherment of skaldic poetry are concerned, after this edition not much is left for anyone to add".^[4]

List of volumes

• Book: Poetry from the Kings' Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. 2012. Whaley. Diana. 1.
• Book: Poetry from the Kings' Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. 2009. Gade. Kari Ellen. 2.
• Book: Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. 2017. Gade. Kari Ellen. 3. Marold. Edith.
• Book: Poetry on Icelandic History. Nordal. Guðrún. 4. Forthcoming
• Book: Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders. Wills. Tarrin. 5. Gade. Kari Ellen. Clunies Ross. Margaret. Forthcoming
• Book: Runic Poetry. Marold. Edith. 6. Busch. Vivian. Krüger. Jana. Forthcoming
• Book: Poetry on Christian Subjects. 2012. Clunies Ross. Margaret. 7.
• Book: Poetry in fornaldarsögur. 2017. Clunies Ross. Margaret. 8.
• Book: Bibliography and Indices. 2012. Burrows. Hannah. 9. Forthcoming

Notes and References

1. Wills. Tarrin. 2017-07-27. Skaldic Project - Cross-Platform Interface. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages. https://web.archive.org/web/20191217074201/https://skaldic.abdn.ac.uk/m.php?p=skaldic. 17 December 2019.
2. Wills. Tarrin. 2018-08-17. Skaldic Project: Statistics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages. https://web.archive.org/web/20191205063614/https://skaldic.abdn.ac.uk/m.php?p=skpstatstable. 5 December 2019.
3. Wills. Tarrin. Skaldic Project - volumes. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages. 19 July 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211020202805/https://skaldic.org/skaldic/m.php?p=vols. 20 October 2021.
4. Liberman. Anatoly. 2009. Review of Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages, vol. 7. Part 1: The Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. Part 2: The Fourteenth Century. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 108. 4. 550–554. 10.1353/egp.0.0083. 20722782. 161996121 . 0363-6941.