THE HIES OPEN LIBRARY
Guðbrandur Vigfússon & F. York Powell • 1883
Category: SOURCE COLLECTION
Corpus Poeticum Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue from the Earliest Times to the Thirteenth Century is a major two-volume collection of Old Norse and related Northern poetry edited, classified, and translated by Guðbrandur Vigfússon and F. York Powell.
The first volume focuses on Eddic poetry, while the second addresses court poetry. Together the volumes collect poetic texts and fragments accompanied by extensive introductions, notes, translations, classifications, and scholarly commentary.
This Open Library entry uses the original two-volume edition of Corpus Poeticum Boreale, published by Clarendon Press in Oxford in 1883.
The work represents an important stage in nineteenth-century Old Norse textual scholarship. Its editorial decisions, translations, classifications, terminology, and interpretations reflect the scholarship of its period and should therefore be evaluated critically alongside modern editions and contemporary scholarship.
Eddic Poetry
Skaldic & Court Poetry
Old Norse Poetics
Textual Scholarship
Translation & Interpretation
Manuscript Tradition
Historical Philology
Comparative Study
Corpus Poeticum Boreale provides an advanced source collection for the study of Old Norse poetry, textual scholarship, translation, and historical philology at Hákonarætt Institute of Eddic Studies.
It is especially relevant to advanced study involving Eddic poetry, skaldic and court poetry, Old Norse poetics, textual interpretation, manuscript traditions, comparative translation, and the history of scholarship concerning Old Northern literature.
Because this work was published in 1883, students should distinguish the primary poetic material from the editors' translations, classifications, textual decisions, and scholarly interpretations.
Inclusion in the Open Library does not mean that every text or section is assigned in every HIES course. Specific required readings are identified within individual courses on the HIES Learning Platform.
Title: Corpus Poeticum Boreale
Subtitle: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue from the Earliest Times to the Thirteenth Century
Editors and Translators: Guðbrandur Vigfússon & F. York Powell
Volumes: 2
Publication Year: 1883
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Publication Place: Oxford
Resource Type: Source Collection / Historical Scholarship
Language: English / Old Norse