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