Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Editorial Note
- Abbreviations
- Chapter One Introduction: The Old Norse Poetic Corpus
- Chapter Two An Indigenous Typology of Old Norse Poetry 1: Technical Terms
- Chapter Three An Indigenous Typology of Old Norse Poetry 2: Genres and Subgenres of Skaldic Verse
- Chapter Four Circumstances of Recording and Transmission: Poetry as Quotation
- Chapter Five Old Norse Poetic Aesthetics
- Chapter Six The Impact of Christianity on Old Norse Poetry
- Chapter Seven Poetics and Grammatica 1: The Twelfth Century
- Chapter Eight Poetics and Grammatica 2: The Edda of Snorri Sturluson
- Chapter Nine Poetics and Grammatica 3: The Third and Fourth Grammatical Treatises
- Chapter Ten The Icelandic Poetic Landscape in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
- Chapter Eleven Conclusion
- Appendix: Snorri Sturluson's View of Figurative Language
- References
- Index
- The Scandinavians from the Vendel Period to the Tenth Century
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Editorial Note
- Abbreviations
- Chapter One Introduction: The Old Norse Poetic Corpus
- Chapter Two An Indigenous Typology of Old Norse Poetry 1: Technical Terms
- Chapter Three An Indigenous Typology of Old Norse Poetry 2: Genres and Subgenres of Skaldic Verse
- Chapter Four Circumstances of Recording and Transmission: Poetry as Quotation
- Chapter Five Old Norse Poetic Aesthetics
- Chapter Six The Impact of Christianity on Old Norse Poetry
- Chapter Seven Poetics and Grammatica 1: The Twelfth Century
- Chapter Eight Poetics and Grammatica 2: The Edda of Snorri Sturluson
- Chapter Nine Poetics and Grammatica 3: The Third and Fourth Grammatical Treatises
- Chapter Ten The Icelandic Poetic Landscape in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
- Chapter Eleven Conclusion
- Appendix: Snorri Sturluson's View of Figurative Language
- References
- Index
- The Scandinavians from the Vendel Period to the Tenth Century
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- Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2005