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Old Norse Eddic and Skaldic Poetry: Composition and Transmission (c. 900–1400)

Old Norse Eddic and Skaldic Poetry: Composition and Transmission (c. 900–1400)

  1. Skaldic court poetry flourishes in Scandinavia

    Labels: Skaldic poetry, Scandinavia

  4. Einar composes *Vellekla* for Hákon jarl

    Labels: Einar skald, Vellekla

  5. Iceland adopts Christianity at the Alþingi

    Labels: Al ingi, Iceland

  6. First Grammatical Treatise advances vernacular analysis

    Labels: First Grammatical, Old Norse

  7. Snorri compiles the *Prose Edda*

    Labels: Snorri Sturluson, Prose Edda

  8. Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda is written

    Labels: Codex Regius, Poetic Edda

  9. AM 748 I 4to preserves eddic poem fragments

    Labels: AM 748, Baldrs draumar

  10. Codex Frisianus copies kings’ saga materials

    Labels: Codex Frisianus, Kings' sagas

  11. Codex Wormianus records *Prose Edda* and poetics

    Labels: Codex Wormianus, Prose Edda

  12. Flateyjarbók compilation completed with verse citations

    Labels: Flateyjarb k, Kings' sagas

  13. Codex Regius is rediscovered by Brynjólfur Sveinsson

    Labels: Brynj lfur, Codex Regius

  14. Brynjólfur sends Codex Regius to Denmark’s king

    Labels: Brynj lfur, Frederik III

  15. Árni Magnússon bequeaths his manuscript collection

    Labels: rni Magn, Manuscript collection

  17. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages launches

    Labels: Skaldic Poetry, Editorial project