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'''Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages''' is a project which is editing the corpus of [[Old Norse|Old Norse-Icelandic]] [[skaldic poetry]].,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wills|first=Tarrin|date=2017-07-27|title=Skaldic Project - Cross-Platform Interface|url=https://skaldic.abdn.ac.uk//m.php|journal=Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217074201/https://skaldic.abdn.ac.uk/m.php?p=skaldic|archive-date=17 December 2019}}</ref> along with all poetry written down in [[Runic script|runes]]. The project will publish nine volumes and is supported by a website. The corpus comprises 5797 verses by 447 [[skald]]s preserved in 718 manuscripts.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wills|first=Tarrin|date=2018-08-17|title=Skaldic Project: Statistics|url=https://skaldic.abdn.ac.uk//m.php|journal=Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191205063614/https://skaldic.abdn.ac.uk/m.php?p=skpstatstable|archive-date=5 December 2019}}</ref> As of October 2021, five volumes have been published, all of which can be accessed via the project's website.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wills|first=Tarrin|title=Skaldic Project - volumes|url=https://skaldic.org/skaldic/m.php?p=vols|journal=Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages|date=19 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020202805/https://skaldic.org/skaldic/m.php?p=vols|archive-date=20 October 2021}}</ref>

[[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".<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Liberman|first=Anatoly|date=2009|title=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|journal=The Journal of English and Germanic Philology|volume=108|issue=4|pages=550–554|doi=10.1353/egp.0.0083|jstor=20722782|s2cid=161996121 |issn=0363-6941}}</ref>

== List of volumes ==

* {{Cite book|url=https://skaldic.abdn.ac.uk/m.php?p=vol&i=1|title=Poetry from the Kings' Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035|year=2012|editor-last=Whaley|editor-first=Diana|volume=1}}
* {{Cite book|url=https://skaldic.abdn.ac.uk/m.php?p=vol&i=2|title=Poetry from the Kings' Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300|year=2009|editor-last=Gade|editor-first=Kari Ellen|volume=2}}
* {{Cite book|url=https://skaldic.abdn.ac.uk/m.php?p=vol&i=3|title=Poetry from Treatises on Poetics|year=2017|editor-last=Gade|editor-first=Kari Ellen|volume=3|editor-last2=Marold|editor-first2=Edith}}
* {{Cite book|title=Poetry on Icelandic History|editor-last=Nordal|editor-first=Guðrún|volume=4}} ''Forthcoming''
* {{Cite book|title=Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders|year=2022|editor-last=Wills|editor-first=Tarrin|volume=5|editor-last2=Gade|editor-first2=Kari Ellen|editor-last3=Clunies Ross|editor-first3=Margaret}}
* {{Cite book|title=Runic Poetry|editor-last=Marold|editor-first=Edith|volume=6|editor-last2=Busch|editor-first2=Vivian|editor-last3=Krüger|editor-first3=Jana}} ''Forthcoming''
* {{Cite book|url=https://skaldic.abdn.ac.uk/m.php?p=vol&i=7|title=Poetry on Christian Subjects|year=2012|editor-last=Clunies Ross|editor-first=Margaret|volume=7}}
* {{Cite book|url=https://skaldic.abdn.ac.uk/m.php?p=vol&i=8|title=Poetry in fornaldarsögur|year=2017|editor-last=Clunies Ross|editor-first=Margaret|volume=8}}
* {{Cite book|title=Bibliography and Indices|year=2012|editor-last=Burrows|editor-first=Hannah|volume=9}} ''Forthcoming''

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Old Norse literature]]
[[Category:Skaldic poetry]]
[[Category:Skaldic poems]]

Skaldic poetry - Revision history

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