Pensum texts
Acker, Paul: Revising Oral Theory. Formulaic composition in Old English and Old Icelandic Verse, New York and London; Garland Publishing 1998. p. 85-110.
Clunies Ross, Margaret: Prolonged Echoes. Old Norse Myths in medieval Northern Society vol.1: The Myths, Odense 1994. s.11-41.
Eddic poems, ca. 250 pages. See Source Texts:
Fidjestøl, Bjarne: The Dating of Eddic Poetry. A Historical Survey and Methodological Investigations, edited by Odd Einar Haugen. Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana Vol. XLI, Copenhagen, C.A. Reitzels forlag 1999. p. 3-203.
Harris, Joseph "Eddic poetry". In: Old Norse-Icelandic Literature. A Critical Guide., edited by Carol Clover and John Lindow. Ithaca and London. Cornell University Press 1985. p.68-156.
Jonas Kristjánsson: Eddas and Sagas. Iceland's Medieval Literature, Reykjavík: Hid íslenska bókmenntafélag, 1988. p.25-82.
Kellogg, Robert "Literacy and Orality in the Poetic Edda" In: Vox intexta. Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages, edited by A.N. Doane & Carol Braun Pasternack, Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press 1991. p.89-101.
Stock, Brian: The Implications of Literacy. Written Language and Models of Interpretations in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, Princeton University Press 1983. p.3-87.
Source Texts
Bugge, Sophus (utg.): Norroen fornkvoedi. Islands samling af folkelige oldtidsdigte om Nordens guder og heroer almindeligt kaldet Sæmundar Edda hins fróda, Christiania 1867 (new print 1965: Universitetsforlaget, Oslo).
Dronke, Ursula (ed.): The Poetic Edda. Volume I. Heroic Poems, Oxford: Claredon Press 1969.
Dronke, Ursula (ed.): The Poetic Edda. Volume II. Mythological Poems, Oxford: Claredon Press 1997.
Kuhn, Hans (ed.): Edda. Die Lieder des Codex Regius nebst verwandten Denkmalern. 1. Text, edited by Gustav Neckel.Rev. Hans Kuhn. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag C. Winter.
In Translation
Holm-Olsen, Ludvig (transl.): Eddadikt, Oslo, Cappelens forlag 1975.
Larrington, Carolyne (transl.): The Poetic Edda, Oxford - New York. Oxford University Press World Classics 1996.
Fascimiles
Finnur Jónsson: Håndskriftet nr. 748, 4to, bl.1-6 i den Arna-Magnæanske samling (brudstykke af den ældre Edda) i fototypisk og diplomatisk gengivelse, København: S.L. Møllers bogtrykkeri 1896.
Heusler, Andreas: Codex Regius of the Elder Edda. Ms. No. 2365, 4to in the Old Royal Collection in the Royal Library of Copenhagen, Copenhagen: Levin & Munksgaard 1937.
Jón Helgason: Hauksbók. The Arna-Magnaean Manuscript 371, 4to, 544, 4to, and 675 4to, Manuscripta Islandica V. Copenhagen: Einar Munksgaard 1960.
Wessén, Elias: Fragments of the Elder and the Younger Edda, AM 748 I and II 4to, Corpus Codicum Islandicorum Medii Aevi Volume XVII. Copenhagen: Einar Munksgaard 1945.
Wimmer, Ludvig F.A. & Finnur Jónsson: Håndskriftet nr. 2365 4to gl. kgl. samling på det store Kgl. Bibliotek i København (Codex Regius af den ældre Edda) i fototypisk og diplomatisk gengivelse, København: S.L. Møllers bogtrykkeri 1891.
Further Reading
Clunies Ross, Margaret: Prolonged Echoes. Old Norse Myths in medieval Northern Society, vol.I: The Myths, Odense 1994.
Clunies Ross, Margaret: Prolonged Echoes. Old Norse Myths in medieval Northern Society, vol.II: The Reception of Norse myths in Medieval Iceland, Odense 1998.
Gudrun Nordal: Tools of Literacy. The Role of Skaldic Verse in Icelandic Textual Culture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth centuries, Toronto-Buffalo-LOndon: University of Torornto Press 2001.
Tranter, Stephen: Clavis Metrica; Háttatal, Háttalykill and the Irish Metrical Tracts, Basel und Frankfurt am Main; Helbing & Lichtenhahn Verlag AG 1997.
Dictionaries and Lexicons
Cleasby, Richard & Gudbrand Vigfusson (eds.): An Icelandic-English Dictionary, Oxford: Claredon Press.
Finnur Jónsson: Lexicon Poeticum Antiquae Linguae Septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjørn Egilsson, 2.utg.1931. København; S.L. Møller omtr. 1966.
La Farge, Beatrice & Tucker, John (eds.): Glossary of the Poetic Edda. Based on Hans Kuhn's Kurzes Wortebuch, Heidelberg.Universitatsverlag C. Winter 1992.
Kellogg, Robert: A Concordance to Eddic Poetry, East Lansing: Colleagues Press 1988.
See, Klaus von et al. (eds.): Kommentar zu den Liedern der Edda, Bd. 2. and 3.: Gøtterlieder. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag C. Winter 1997 and 2000.