1. About the database (TW)

The database incorporates the following material. All material is either publically available or has been supplied with permission to the skaldic project. Material for which the project does not have permission to republish is restricted to members of the project.

• Skjaldedigtning’s corpus of poetry (B text supplied mostly by Eysteinn Björnsson, contents, headings and other data by TW);
• The Jón Helgason-commissioned skaldic card index’s ms. references;
• ONP Registre data on prose works and their ms. locations;
• ONP Registre data on mss and ms collections;
• Saganet data on mss and their contents;
• Samnordisk Runtextdatabas data on runic inscriptions;
• Oslo University’s Dokumentasjonsprosjekt electronic text of Fritzners Ordbog (references linked by TW);
• Eysteinn Björnsson’s partial text of LP;
• prose texts from www.snerpa.is;
• text of Zoëga’s Icelandic-English dictionary from Northvegr;
• scanned ms photographs from the Arnamagnæan Institutes in Copenhagen and Reykjavík;
• verse contents of prose works from various editions (mostly by TW);
• digital photographs from SÁMÍ, Riksantikvarieämbetet and other sources;
• scanned inscription photographs from the Olso Rune Archive;
• scanned out-of-copyright printed works by TW and from Saganet;
• transcriptions of mss by VEÞ and others;
• the edited text for the new edition by the contributing editors: text, prose order, translation, variant apparatus, notes, introductory material, kennings and heiti;
• further indices based on the new edition: lemmata (TW) and metrical forms (TW) and line types (TW, in progress)