Gudrun Nordal, Tools of Literacy: the Role of Skaldic Verse in Icelandic Textual Culture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries.(Book Review)

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(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001). X + 440 pp. ISBN 0-8020-4789-0. 60.00 [pounds sterling].

With a major international project under way to re-edit the entire corpus ascribed to skalds from the ninth to fourteenth centuries, skaldic verse is enjoying an unprecedented surge of scholarly interest. In Tools of Literacy, Gudrun Nordal, a research fellow at the Arni Magnusson Institute in Reykjavik, and a general editor of the skaldic project, offers the first dedi...

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