Skaldic Verse and Learning -- The Twelfth Century -- Drottkvaett and the study of grammatica -- The grammatical literature -- Hattalykill -- A twelfth-century poet: Bishop Kloeingr Porsteinsson -- Snorra Edda and the Study of Grammatica -- Manuscript textuality -- The medieval codices of Snorra Edda -- The manuscripts of Snorra Edda and the grammatical literature -- The Sources and the Thirteenth-Century Poet -- Sources of Skaldic Verse -- Textbooks and treatises -- Translations from Latin -- A saint's life -- Historical writing -- The Poet's Profession -- Professional poets -- Aristocratic poets in Iceland -- Clerics as poets -- Excursus: The Thirteenth-Century Poet -- Unknown thirteenth-century poets listed in both versions of Skaldatal and their patrons -- Twelfth-century poets in Sturlunga saga -- Known thirteenth-century poets -- Theory and Practice in Skaldic Poetics -- Theoretical Discussion of the Kenning -- The Kenning in vernacular literary theory -- The fusion of vernacular and Latin traditions -- The Kenning in grammatica -- Categories of meaning in Skaldskaparmal and Litla Skalda -- Pulur -- Theory and Practice in Skaldic Verse -- The Poetic treatises -- The human body dismembered in skaldic diction -- Sources of Inspiration -- Cosmology, Learning, and Body Imagery -- Neoplatonist ideas and the world-body -- Ymir's body in Snorri Sturluson's Gylfaginning -- The poetic landscape in body imagery -- Cosmological imagery -- Natural landscape -- Flora -- The human body -- Digging for Gold in Skaldic Verse
Summary
A thorough and ground-breaking examination of thirteenth-century skaldic verse, linking the poets of the time with leading families and with ecclesiastical and secular learning
