Offers a collection of essays on Old Norse-Icelandic poetry that is concerned with the blurring of boundaries between genres and periods. This title also includes essays in this collection that present new material for consideration, while others revisit long-held assumptions about authors and texts and challenge or suggest revision of them.
Geisli is the earliest Nordic Christian dr¿ (long stanzaic poem) known to exist. Written by Einarr Sk¿lason, the twelfth century's premier Icelandic poet, Geisli marked a stylistic shift in Old Norse poetry brought about by Christianity and European learning. Einarr Sk¿lason was a priest as well as a skald, and his writing demonstrates that he was as familiar with the traditions of Latin liturgy and hagiography as with the conventions of skald...
This new critical edition features a version in normalized orthography, as well as a version in prose word order, a translation into English, a complete glossary, an introduction that situates the poem in its context, and substantial explanatory notes.
