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<LI><A HREF="#modern">Modern Poetry in the Viking Style</A><BR>
<LI><A HREF="#edda">The Poetic Edda</A>
<UL><A HREF="#translation">Translations</A>
<BR><A HREF="#text">Old Norse Text</A></UL>
<LI><A HREF="#principles">Principles of Skaldic Verse</A><P>
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<P><A NAME="modern"><FONT SIZE=+2 COLOR="#40000"><A NAME="top"><B>Modern Poetry in the Viking Style</B></A></FONT>
<P><FONT SIZE=+1>Poems by Christie Ward:</FONT><BR>
<UL><LI><A HREF="poetry/cat.htm">Lady of Cats</A>
<LI><A HREF="poetry/creation.htm">Creation</A>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+1>Links to modern skaldic poetry</FONT></P>
<P><B>John Myers Myers</B> (Science fiction and fantasy author) - from the <A HREF="outside.html#Myers" TARGET="main">Commonwealth of Letters</A> site<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.anitra.net/commonwealth/alamo.html">The Death of Bowie Gizzardsbane</A><BR>
(The Fall of the Alamo, as a Viking skald would have sung it.)</P>
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<P><A NAME="edda"><FONT SIZE=+2 COLOR="#40000"><A NAME="top"><B>Ancient Viking Verse: The Poetic Edda</B></A></FONT>
<P><A NAME="translation"><FONT SIZE=+1>Translations</FONT></P>
<P><A HREF="poetry/thrym.htm">The Tale of Thrym</A><BR>
<UL>A translation from the Poetic Edda by <B>George Johnston</B></UL>
<P><FONT SIZE=+1>Links to more translations</FONT></P>
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<P>Grimnir Svithrirsson's <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/4178/edda.html" TARGET="main">alliterative translations</A>
<P><A HREF="http://ds.dial.pipex.com/sean.miller/havamal.htm" TARGET="main">Havamal</A> translation with notes (<A HREF="outside.html#Miller">Sean Miller</A>)
<P>From D.L. Ashliman's <A HREF="outside.html#Germanic">Germanic Myths, Legends, and Sagas</A><UL>
<A HREF="http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/havamal.html" TARGET="main">Another Havamal translation</A> (Olive Bray, 1908, ed. by D.L. Ashliman)
<br><A HREF="http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/rig.html" TARGET="main">Rigsthula: The Lay of Rig</A> (Olive Bray, 1908, ed. by D.L. Ashliman)
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<P><A NAME="text"><FONT SIZE=+1><A HREF="http://home.nvg.ntnu.no/~gjerde/norn/" TARGET="main">The Old Norse Text</A> </FONT><BR>(From <A HREF="outside.html#Gjerde">Tor Gjerde's Home Page</A>)
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<P><A NAME="principles"><FONT SIZE=+2 COLOR="#40000"><A NAME="top"><B>Principles of Skaldic Verse</B></A></FONT>
<P><A HREF="http://members.xoom.com/Arnaut/prosody/pnort.html"><B>Nordic Prosody</B></A><BR> - from <A HREF="outside.html#Arnaut">Arnaut and Karkur's ultimate online prosody resource</A></P>
<P><A HREF="http://www.realtime.com/~gunnora/meters.htm"><B>Viking Poetry</B></A><BR> - from the <A HREF="outside.html#Gunnora">The Viking Answer Lady's Webpage</P>
<P><A HREF="http://members.xoom.com/nikpage/nse/elder.htm"><B>Introduction to the Elder Edda</B></A><BR> - from the <A HREF="outside.html#Norse">Norse literature</A> page</P>
<P><A HREF="http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/Jonas/Prosody/Prosody.html"><B>Formal Features of Jonas Hallgrimsson's Poetry</B></A><BR> - from the <A HREF="outside.html#Hallgrimsson">Jonas Hallgrimsson</A> site</P>
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