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Over 5,000 extant verses composed by Scandinavian-speakers between the late 9th … They differ fundamentally from the traditional Germanic and Eddic forms in that the syllables are strictly counted and the lines must end in a given form.

The written artefacts of that time come from skalds, as they were the first from the time and place to record on paper. In addition to being a great poet, he was leader of the Althing for part of his life, leading the government of Iceland. [8][9], However, many skalds came after him, like Egill Skallagrímsson and Torbjørn Hornklove (Þorbjörn Hornklofi), who gained much fame in the 10th century for the poems composed for the kings they served of their own exploits. Kennings are devices ready to supply a standard image to form an alliterating half-line to fit the requirements of dróttkvætt, but the substantially greater technical demands of skaldic verse required the devices to be multiplied and compounded to meet its demands for skill and wordplay.

The images can therefore become somewhat hermetic, at least to those who fail to grasp the allusions that are at the root of many of them.[17]. Since 2008 this has involved the author (Tarrin Wills) writing or reviewing some 10,000 lines of programming code (PHP) for the web interface and 20,000 lines of database queries (SQL). The metre is ornate, usually dróttkvætt or a variation thereof. There is debate over the performance of skaldic poetry, but there is a general scholarly consensus that it was spoken rather than sung.[16]. 6. Many skalds were men of influence and power and so were biographically noted. Editorial Board (General Editors):Emeritus Professor Margaret Clunies Ross, The University of SydneyProfessor Kari Ellen Gade, University of Indiana, BloomingtonProfessor Gudrún Nordal, Háskóli Íslands (University of Iceland)Emeritus Professor Edith Marold, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu KielProfessor Diana Whaley, University of Newcastle upon TyneDr Tarrin Wills, University of Aberdeen, Contact Address for Editorial Board:Emeritus Professor Margaret Clunies Ross,Department of English,University of Sydney,New South Wales 2006,Australia.Email: margaret.cluniesross@sydney.edu.au.

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Unlike many other literary forms of the time, much skaldic poetry is attributable to an author (called a skald), and these attributions may be reli…

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Wills, T. ‘Electronic Editing of the Skaldic Corpus’. There is debate over the performance of skaldic poetry, but there is a general scholarly consensus that it was spoken rather than sung. An international project to edit the corpus of medieval Norse-Icelandic skaldic poetry.

They typically have historical content, relating battles and other deeds from the king's career.

Skalds also composed insult (níðvísur) and very occasionally, erotic verse (mansöngr). Database structure (TW), (5.

Skaldic verse. They were living creations.

Technically, the verse was usually a form of alliterative verse and almost always used the dróttkvætt stanza (also known as the Court or Lordly Metre).

Because they so often praised current feats of the kings, the poems have high historical value, limited only by their abstruse language. [3][4], The corpus of skaldic poetry comprise 5797 verses by 447 skalds preserved in 718 manuscripts.

), whose life and works are preserved in the Egils saga. The author has also provided a considerable amount of the content in addition to some of the editions themselves, including lexicographic materials (linking dictionary headwords to over 100,000 words); categorisation and analysis of poetic diction (kennings and heiti); metrical analysis; and analytical queries to produce maps, graphs and statistical data on the corpus (see the 'reports' table). This is the first edition of the skaldic corpus from first principles since Finnur Jónsson's Den Norsk-Islandske Skjaldedigtning (1912-15).

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