Chapter 2
Previous scholarship and methodological considerations
Article outline
- 2.1The debate on the age of Eddic and skaldic poetry
- 2.1.1Early speculation; early scholarship
- 2.1.2More recent scholarship
- 2.1.3Dating skaldic poetry
- 2.2Literary scholarship on individual poems
- 2.2.1
Vǫluspá (Vsp)
- 2.2.2
Hávamál (Háv)
- 2.2.3
Vafþrúðnismál (Vm)
- 2.2.4
Grímnismál (Grm)
- 2.2.5
Skírnismál (Skm)
- 2.2.6
Hárbarðsljóð (Hrbl)
- 2.2.7
Hymiskviða (Hym)
- 2.2.8
Lokasenna (Ls)
- 2.2.9
Þrymskviða (Þrk)
- 2.2.10
Vǫlundarkviða (Vkv)
- 2.2.11
Alvíssmál (Alv)
- 2.2.12The Helgi poems:
HH I, HHv, and HH II
- 2.2.13
Grípisspá (Grp)
- 2.2.14Young Sigurðr poems:
Rm, Fm, and Sd
- 2.2.15Elegiac poems:
Br, Sg, Gðr I, Hlr, Gðr II–III, and Od
- 2.2.16
Atlakviða (Akv)
- 2.2.17
Atlamál in grœnlenzku (Am)
- 2.2.18
Guðrúnarhvǫt (Ghv)
- 2.2.19
Hamðismál (Hm)
- 2.2.20The Eddic appendix:
Bdr, Rþ, Hdl, Grt, and Svm
- 2.2.21Summary of proposed dates
- 2.3Linguistic and metrical methods for dating Old Norse poetry
- 2.3.1Why linguistic and metrical criteria?
- 2.3.2The particle of/um
- 2.3.3Alliteration of *vr- with r-
- 2.3.4Contracted vs. hiatus forms
- 2.3.5Syncope
- 2.3.6Mythological kennings
- 2.3.7Kuhn’s laws and Fremdstofflieder hypothesis
- 2.3.8Other criteria for dating Eddic poetry
- 2.3.9Dating skaldic poetry
- 2.4My assumptions and methods
- 2.4.1Dating the extant poem
- 2.4.2Selection of my dating features
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