Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond: Poetic Variety in Medieval Iceland and Norway
ISBN: 9780823257843
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Fordham University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Old Norse poetry -- History and criticism; Eddas -- History and criticism; Scalds and scaldic poetry -- History and criticism;

Explores the blurring of boundaries between genres (skaldic and eddic), periods (Viking Age, medieval, early modern) and cultures (Icelandic, Scandinavian, English, continental) in Old Norse-Icelandic poetry.


Chase Martin :

Martin Chase is Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Fordham University, where he teaches Old and Middle English and Old Norse. His current research is on late- medieval Icelandic devotional poetry. He edited Geisli and Lilja for the Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages series.

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