| Tools of Literacy: The Role of Skaldic Verse in Icelandic Textual Culture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 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. Nordal Guðrún : Guðrún Nordal is Senior Research Fellow at Arni Magnusson Institute. |