Reading lists for manuscript studies

Preparatory reading list — Basic level (Module 1)

General and Old Norse manuscripts

Carlquist, Jonas: ‘The history of Old Nordic manuscripts III: Old Swedish’, The Nordic languages: An international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages, ed. Oskar Bandle et al. (Berlin/New York, 2002), pp. 808-816.

Frederiksen, Britta Olrik: ‘The history of Old Nordic manuscripts IV: Old Danish’, The Nordic languages: An international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages, ed. Oskar Bandle et al. (Berlin/New York, 2002), pp. 816-824.

Kwakkel, Erik: ‘General Introduction’, Books Before Print, ed. Erik Kwakkel (Leeds, 2018), pp. 1-27.

Rindal, Magnus: ‘The history of Old Nordic manuscripts II: Old Norwegian (incl. Faroese)’, The Nordic languages: An international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages, ed. Oskar Bandle et al. (Berlin/New York, 2002), pp. 801-808.

Sverrir Tómasson: ‘The history of Old Nordic manuscripts I: Old Icelandic’, The Nordic languages: An international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages, ed. Oskar Bandle et al. (Berlin/New York, 2002), pp. 793-801.

Old Norse paleography

Guðvarður Már Gunnlaugsson: ‘Manuscripts and palaeography’, A companion to Old Norse-Icelandic literature and culture, ed. Rory McTurk (Oxford, 2005), pp. 245-264.

Haugen, Odd Einar: ‘The development of Latin script I: in Norway’, The Nordic languages: An international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages, ed. Oskar Bandle et al. (Berlin/New York, 2002), pp. 824-832.

Hreinn Benediktsson: 1965. Abbreviations, Word division and Punctuation. Early Icelandic Script as Illustrated in Vernacular Texts from the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. (Reykjavík, 1965), pp. 85–95.

Már Jónssson: Manuscript Design in Medieval Iceland. From Nature to Script. Reykholt, Environment, Centre, and Manuscript Making, eds. Helgi Þorláksson and Þóra Björg Sigurðardóttir (Reykholt, 2012), pp. 231-244.

Nielsen, Herluf: ‘The development of Latin script IV: in Denmark’, The Nordic languages: An international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages, ed. Oskar Bandle et al. (Berlin/New York, 2002), pp. 850-856.

Stefán Karlsson: ‘The development of Latin script II: in Iceland’, The Nordic languages: An international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages, ed. Oskar Bandle et al. (Berlin/New York, 2002), pp. 832-840.

Svensson, Lars: ‘Palaeography’, Medieval Scandinavia: An encyclopedia, ed. Phillip Pulsiano et al. (New York, 1993), pp. 491-496.

Westlund, Börje: ‘The development of Latin script III: in Sweden’, The Nordic languages: An international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages, ed. Oskar Bandle et al. (Berlin/New York, 2002), pp. 841-849.

Preparatory reading list – Advanced level (Module 2)

Driscoll, M. J.: ‘The long and winding road: Manuscript culture in late pre-modern Iceland’, White field, black seeds: Nordic literacy practices in the long nineteenth century, ed. Anna Kuismin & M. J. Driscoll (Helsinki, 2013), pp. 50-63.

Driscoll, M.J. : ‘The words on the page: Thoughts on philology old and new’, Creating the medieval saga: Versions, variability and editorial interpretations of Old Norse sage literature, ed. Judy Quinn and Emily Lethbridge (Odense: 2010), bls. 87–104.

Greetham, D. C.: ‘Criticizing the text: Textual criticism’ and ‘Editing the text: Scholarly editing’, Textual scholarship: An introduction (New York, 1994), pp. 295-346, 347-372.

Hall, Alaric: 'Making stemmas with small samples, and new media approaches to publishing them: Testing the stemma of Konráðs saga keisarasonar'.

Haugen, Odd Einar: ‘The spirit of Lachmann, the spirit of Bédier: Old Norse textual editing in the electronic age’ [paper read at the annual meeting of The Viking Society, University College London, 8 November 2002.

Kwakkel, Erik: ‘Decoding the Material Book: Cultural Residue in Medieval Manuscripts’, The Medieval Manuscript Book: Cultural Approaches, ed. Michael Van Dussen and Michael Johnson (Cambridge, 2015), pp. 60-76.

Kwakkel, Erik: ‘Late Medieval Text Collections: A Codicological Typology Based on Single-Author Manuscripts’, Author, Reader, Book: Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice, ed. Stephen Partridge and Erik Kwakkel (Toronto/Buffalo/London, 2012), pp. 56-79.

Nichols, Stephen: ”Why material philology?” Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie 116 (1997): 10-30.

Springborg, Peter: ‘Antiqvæ Historiæ Lepores – om renæssancen i den islandske håndskriftproduktion i 1600-tallet’, Gardar, VIII (1977), pp. 53-89.

Stefán Karlsson: ‘The localisation and dating of medieval Icelandic manuscripts’, Saga-book, XXV.2 (1999), pp. 138-158.

Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir: ‘To the letter: Philology as a core component of Old Norse studies’, Scripta Islandica, LX (2009), pp. 7-22.

General reading lists for Scandinavian manuscript studies

Scandinavian manuscripts and manuscript culture

West Norse/Icelandic

Davíð Ólafsson: ‘Textinn á tíma fjöldaframleiðslu sinnar: Rannsóknir á handritamenningu síðari alda’, Saga XLVIII, 1 (2010), pp. 61-97.

Driscoll, M. J.: The unwashed children of Eve: The production, dissemination and reception of popular literature in post-Reformation Iceland (London, 1997), esp. chapter II, ‘Social textuality: The lygisaga in context’, pp. 35-73.

—: ‘Postcards from the edge: An overview of marginalia in Icelandic manuscripts’, Reading notes, Variants 2/3 (2004), pp. 21-36.

—: ‘The long and winding road: Manuscript culture in late pre-modern Iceland’, White field, black seeds: Nordic literacy practices in the long nineteenth century, ed. Anna Kuismin & M. J. Driscoll (Helsinki, 2013), pp. 50-63.

Gunnar Harðarson with Christian Etheridge, Guðrún Nordal and Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir (eds.): A world in fragments: Studies on the encyclopedic manuscript GKS 1812 4to (Reykjavík, 2021).

Halldór Hermannsson: Icelandic manuscripts, Islandica XIX (Ithaca, New York, 1929).

Heslop, Kate and Jürg Glauser (eds.): RE:writing : medial perspectives on textual culture in the Icelandic Middle Ages (Zürich, 2018).

Holm-Olsen, Ludvig: Med fjærpenn og pergament: Vår skriftkultur i middelalderen (Oslo, 1990).

Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir (ed.): Góssið hans Árna. Minningar heimsins í íslenskum handritum. (Reykjavík, 2014).

Jón Helgason: Handritaspjall (Reykjavík, 1958).

Jónas Kristjánsson: Handritaspegill (Reykjavík, 1993); English version: Icelandic manuscripts: Sagas, history and art, trans. Jeffrey Cosser (Reykjavík, 1996).

Jørgensen, Jon Gunnar: ‘Håndskrift- og arkivkunnskap’, Handbok i norrøn filologi, ed. Odd Einar Haugen (Bergen, 2004), pp. 27-79.

Liepe, Lena: Studies in Icelandic fourteenth century book painting (Reykholt, 2009).

McDonald Werronen, Sheryl: ‘Late medieval and early modern Icelandic saga manuscripts’, Vernacular manuscript culture, 1000-1500, ed. Erik Kwakkel (Leiden, 2018), pp. 187-217.

Már Jónsson: ‘Recent trends (or their lack) in Icelandic manuscript studies’, Gazette du livre médiéval XXXVI (2000), pp. 11-16.

McKinnell, John: ‘Saga manuscripts in Iceland in the later 18th century’, Saga-book XX (1978-81), pp. 131-136.

Ólafur Halldórsson: ‘Skrifaðar bækur’, Munnmenntir og bókmenning, Íslensk þjóðmenning VI, ed. Frosti F. Jóhannsson (Reykjavík, 1989), pp. 57-89.

Stefán Karlsson: ‘From the margins of medieval Europe: Icelandic vernacular scribal culture’, Frontiers in the middle ages: Proceedings of the Third European Congress of Medieval Studies (Jyväskylä, 10-14 June, 2003), ed. O. Merisalo (Louvain-la-Neuve, 2006), pp. 483-492.

Springborg, Peter: ‘Antiqvæ Historiæ Lepores – om renæssancen i den islandske håndskriftproduktion i 1600-tallet’, Gardar VIII (1977), pp. 53-89.

Vésteinn Ólason & Gísli Sigurðsson, ed.: Handritin: Ritgerðir um íslensk miðaldarhandrit, sögu þeirra og áhrif (Reykjavík, 2002); English version: The manuscripts of Iceland (Reykjavík, 2004).

Vågslid, Eivind: Norske skrivarar i millomalderen (Oslo, 1989).

East Norse

—: ‘Dansksprogede bøger fra middelalderen – i tørre og mindre tørre tal’, Levende ord & lysende billeder: Den middelalderlige bogkultur i Danmark. Essays, ed. Erik Petersen (København/Århus, 1999), pp. 154-162; English version: ‘Medieval books in Danish – in plain and less plain figures’, Living words & luminous pictures: Medieval book culture in Denmark. Essays, pp. 154-162.

Gödel, Vilhelm: Sveriges medeltidslitteratur (Stockholm, 1916).

Nielsen, Lauritz: Danmarks middelalderlige Haandskrifter (København, 1937).

Petersen, Erik, ed.: Levende ord & lysende billeder: Den middelalderlige bogkultur i Danmark (København/Århus, 1999); English version: Living words and luminous pictures: Medieval book culture in Denmark.

Skautrup, Peter: ‘Kilderne’, Det danske sprogs historie (København, 1944-1970), I, pp. 190-215; II, pp. 8-27.

Åström, Patrik: ‘Källorna till den fornsvenska språkhistorien: En översikt över det bevarade bokbeståndet’, Studier i svensk språkhistoria III, ed. Lars Wollin (Uppsala, 1993), pp. 229-243.

Codicology

Agati, Maria Luisa: Il libro manoscritto: Introduzione alla codicologia (Roma, 2003); English version: The manuscript book: A compendium of codicology (Rome, 2017).

Andrist, Patrick, Paul Canart & Marilena Maniaci, ed.: La syntaxe du codex: Essai de codicologie structurale (Turnhout, 2013).

Maniaci, Marilena: ‘The medieval codex as a complex container: The Greek and Latin traditions’, One-volume libraries: Composite and multiple-text manuscripts, ed. Michael Friedrich & Cosima Schwarke (Berlin, 2016), pp. 27-46.

—: Terminologia del libro manoscritto (Milano, 1996).

Drífa Kristín Þrastardóttir: The Making of the Codex Regius. The Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda: Konungsbók eddukvæða GKS 2365 4to. Reykjavík: Mál og menning, Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum, ed. Guðvarður Már Gunnlaugsson, Haraldur Bernharðsson, Vésteinn Ólason (Reykjavík, 2019), pp. 257–344.

Friedrich, Michael & Cosima Schwarke: ‘Manuscripts as evolving entities’, One-volume libraries: Composite and multiple-text manuscripts, ed. Michael Friedrich & Cosima Schwarke (Berlin, 2016), 1-26.

Gumbert, J. Peter: ‘Codicological units: Towards a terminology for the stratigraphy of the non-homogeneous codex’, Segno e testo II (2004), pp. 17-42.

—: ‘Fifty years of codicology’, Archiv für Diplomatik: Schriftgeschichte, Siegel- und Wappenkunde 50 (2004): 505-526.

—: ‘Skins, sheets and quires’, New directions in later medieval manuscript studies: Essays from the 1998 Harvard conference, ed. Derek Pearsall (Woodbridge, 2000), pp. 81-90.

Kwakkel, Erik: ‘Towards a terminology for the analysis of composite manuscripts’, Gazette du livre médiéval XLI (2002), pp. 12-19.

Már Jónsson: ‘Megindlegar handritarannsóknir’ [Inngangur], Ezio Ornato, Lofræða um handritamergð: Hugleiðingar um bóksögu miðalda (Reykjavík, 2003), pp. 7-34.

Peter Springborg, ‘Types of bindings in the Arnamagnæan collection’, Care and conservation of manuscripts 5: Proceedings of the fifth international seminar on the care and conservation of manuscripts held at the university of Copenhagen 19th-20th April 1999, ed. Gillian Fellows-Jensen & Peter Springborg (Copenhagen, 2000), pp. 129–147.

Szirmai, János A.: The archaeology of medieval bookbinding (Aldershot, 1999).

Manuscript illuminations

Brown, Michelle P.: Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms (London, 1994). [The illustrated glossary has been reproduced digitally by The British Library].

Guðbjörg Kristjánsdóttir: ‘Illuminations in Icelandic Medieval Manuscripts’, Church and Art, eds. Lilja Árnadóttir & Ketill Kiran (Reykjavík and Oslo, 1997), pp. 93-98.

Halldór Hermannsson: Icelandic illuminated manuscripts of the middle ages (Copenhagen, 1935).

Halldór Hermannsson: Illuminated manuscripts of the Jónsbók (New York, 1940).

Jakobi-Mirwald, Christine: Buchmalerei. Terminologie in der Kunstgeschichte (Berlin, 2008). Swedish version: Christine Jakobi-Mirwald & Patrik Åström: Medeltida bokmåleri, illustrerat konsthistoriskt lexikon (Stockholm, 2012).

Kitzinger, Beatrice: ‘Working with images in manuscripts’, The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts, eds. Orietta da Rold and Elaine Treharne (Cambridge, 2020) pp. 76-105.

Liepe, Lena: Image, Script and Ornamentation in the ‘Helgafell Manuscripts’. From Nature to Script. Reykholt, Environment, Centre, and Manuscript Making, eds. Helgi Þorláksson and Þóra Björg Sigurðardóttir (Reykholt, 2012) pp. 245-71.

—: Studies in Icelandic Fourteenth Century Book Painting (Reykholt, 2009).

Nederland Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis: Iconclass.org – a multilingual classification system for cultural content (The Hague, 2009– ).

Richter, Friederike & Beeke Stegmann: ‘Initials and other illuminations’, Ch. 7 of The Menota handbook: Guidelines for the electronic encoding of Medieval Nordic primary sources. Gen. ed. Odd Einar Haugen. Version 3.0. Bergen: Medieval Nordic Text Archive, 2019.

Selma Jónsdóttir: Illumination in a manuscript of Stjórn (Reykjavík, 1971)

Palaeography & orthography

General

Bischoff, Bernhard: Paläographie des römischen Altertums und des abendländischen Mittelalters (Berlin, 1979, 2. Aufl. 1986); English translation by Dáibhí Ó Cróinín and David Ganz, Latin palaeography: Antiquity and the middle ages (Cambridge, 1989).

Brown, Michelle P.: A guide to western historical scripts from antiquity to 1600 (London, 1990).

Clemens, Raymond & Timothy Graham: Introduction to manuscript studies (Ithaca/London, 2007).

Derolez, Albert: The palaeography of Gothic manuscript books: From the twelfth to the early sixteenth century (Cambridge, 2003).

Greetham, D. C.: ‘Reading the text: Paleography’, Textual scholarship: An introduction (New York, 1994), pp. 169-224.

West Norse/Icelandic

Björn K. Þórólfsson: Um íslenskar orðmyndir á 14. og 15. öld og breytingar þeirra úr fornmálinu (Reykjavík, 1925; repr. in 1987 in the series Rit um íslenska málfræði, vol. 2).

—: ‘Nokkur orð um íslenskt skrifletur’, Landsbókasafn Íslands, Árbók 1948-9 (1950), pp. 116-152; a new edition by Ögmundur Helgason was published by Landsbókasafn Íslands–Háskólabókasafn in 2004.

Driscoll, M. J.: ‘Marking up abbreviations in Old Norse-Icelandic manuscripts’, Medieval texts – contemporary media: The art and science of editing in the digital age, ed. M. G. Saibene & M. Buzzoni (Pavia, 2009), pp. 13-34.

Guðvarður Már Gunnlaugsson: Voru scriptoria í íslenskum klaustrum? Íslensk klausturmenning á miðöldum, ed. Haraldur Bernharðsson (Reykjavík, 2016), pp. 173-200.

—: Sýnisbók íslenskrar skriftar (Reykjavík, 2004).

Haraldur Bernharðsson: Scribal Culture in Thirteenth-Century Iceland: The Introduction of the Anglo-Saxon "f" in Icelandic Script. JEGP 117 (3), 279–314.

—: Málblöndun í sautjándu aldar uppskriftum íslenskra miðaldahandrita (Reykjavík, 1999).

—: ‘Paleografi’, Handbok i norrøn filologi, ed. Odd Einar Haugen (Bergen, 2004), pp. 175-214.

Hreinn Benediktsson, ed.: The first grammatical treatise (Reykjavík, 1972).

—: Early Icelandic script as illustrated in vernacular texts from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, Íslenzk handrit: Icelandic Manuscripts, Series in Folio II (Reykjavík, 1965).

Hreinn Benediktsson: Linguistic studies, historical and comparative, ed. Guðrún Þórhallsdóttir, Höskuldur Þráinsson, Jón G. Friðjónsson & Kjartan Ottosson (Reykjavík, 2002).

Hødnebø, Finn: Norske diplomer til og med år 1300, Corpus codicum Norvegicorum medii aevi, fol. ser. vol. II (Oslo, 1960).

Kjeldsen, Alex Speed: Filologiske studier i kongesagahåndskriftet Morkinskinna. (Copenhagen, 2013).

—: Notarius publicus Jón Egilsson. En senmiddelalderlig skrivers skrift, sprog og herkomst (Oslo, 2017).

Kålund, Kr.: Palæografisk atlas: Oldnorsk-islandsk afdeling (København/Kristiania, 1905).

—: Palæografisk Atlas, Ny serie: Oldnorsk-islandske skriftprøver c. 1300-1700 (København, 1907).

Mårtensson, Lasse. Studier i AM 557 4to: Kodikologisk, grafonomisk och ortografisk undersökning av en isländsk sammelhandskrift från 1400–talet. (Reykjavík, 2011).

de Leeuw van Weenen, Andrea (ed.): AM 677 4to: Four early translations of theological texts: Gregory the Great's Gospel Homilies, Gregory the Great's Dialogues, Prosper's Epigrams, De XII Abusivis Saeculi (Reykjavík, 2018).

—: Lemmatized index to the Icelandic homily book (Reykjavík, 2004).

—: The Icelandic homily book: Perg. 15 4o in the Royal Library, Stockholm, Íslensk handrit III (Reykjavík, 1993), esp. pp. 42-45, 105-120.

—: A grammar of Möðruvallabók (Leiden, 2000), esp. pp. 38-39, 46-47 and 110-126.

Seip, Didrik Arup: Norsk språkhistorie til omkring 1370 (Oslo, 1931; 2nd ed. 1955).

—: Palæografi B: Norge og Island, Nordisk kultur XXVIII:B (Stockholm/Oslo/København, 1954).

Spehr, Harald: Der ursprung der isländischen schrift und ihre weiterbildung bis zur mitte des 13. jahrhunderts (Halle/Saale, 1929).

Stefán Karlsson: Islandske originaldiplomer indtil 1450, Editiones Arnamagnæanæ A, vol. 7 + Suppl. vol. 1 (København, 1963).

—: Sagas of Icelandic bishops: Fragments of eight manuscripts, Early Icelandic manuscripts in facsimile VII (Copenhagen, 1967).

—: ‘Tungan’, Munnmenntir og bókmenning, Íslensk þjóðmenning VI, ed. Frosti F. Jóhannsson (Reykjavík, 1989), pp. 1-54 [repr. in Stafkrókar 2000]; English translation by Rory McTurk, The Icelandic language (London, 2004).

—: ‘The localisation and dating of medieval Icelandic manuscripts’, Saga-book XXV.2 (1999), pp. 138-158.

—: ‘The development of Latin script II: in Iceland’, The Nordic languages: An international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages, ed. Oskar Bandle et al. (Berlin/New York, 2002), pp. 832-840.

Svensson, Lars: Nordisk paleografi: Handbok med transkriberade och kommenterade skriftprov, Lundastudier i nordisk språkvetenskap A 28 (Lund, 1974).

—: ‘Palaeography’, Medieval Scandinavia: An encyclopedia, ed. Phillip Pulsiano et al. (New York, 1993), pp. 491-496.

East Norse

Diderichsen, Paul (ed.): Fragmenter af gammeldanske Haandskrifter (København, 1931-1937), esp. pp. xxx-lxiv.

—: ‘Probleme der altdänischen Orthographie’, Acta Philologica Scandinavica XII (1937-1938), pp. 116-169.

Hald, Kristian: ‘Knud den helliges gavebrev: Et bidrag til det danske skriftsprogs ældste historie’, Acta Philologica Scandinavica XXI (1952), pp. 105-142.

Jansson, Sam: ‘Svensk paleografi’, Palæografi A: Danmark og Sverige, Nordisk kultur XXVIII:A (Stockholm/Oslo/København, 1943), pp. 82-134.

Kroman, Erik: ‘Dansk palæografi’, Palæografi A: Danmark og Sverige, Nordisk kultur XXVIII:A (Stockholm/Oslo/København, 1943), pp. 36-81.

—: Middelalderlig skrift: Skriftprøver og transskriptioner, til universitetsundervisning og til selvstudium (København, 1951).

—: Skriftens historie i Danmark fra reformationen til nutiden, Fjerde oplag (Viborg, 1975).

Weber, Kirsten & Tue Gad, ed.: Skriftprøver til hjælp ved læsning af gotisk skrift (København, 1978).

Textual criticism & editorial practice

General

Greetham, D. C.: ‘Criticizing the text: Textual criticism’ and ‘Editing the text: Scholarly editing’, Textual scholarship: An introduction (New York, 1994), pp. 295-346, 347-372.

Kenney, E. J.: ‘Textual criticism’, Encyclopædia Britannica (15th ed., 1984), vol. XX, pp. 614-620.

Maas, Paul: Textkritik, Einleitung in die Altertumswissenschaft II (Leipzig/Berlin, 1927, 3. Aufl., 1967); Textual criticism, trans. Barbara Flower (Oxford, 1958).

Parvum lexicon stemmatologicum.

Trovato, Paolo: Everything you always wanted to know about Lachmann’s method: A non-standard handbook of genealogical textual criticism in the age of post-structuralism, cladistics, and copy-text (Padua, 2014).

West Norse/Icelandic

Bekker-Nielsen, Hans: ‘Norrøn filologi’, Det filosofiske fakultet, Københavns Universitet 1479-1979 (København, 1979), IX, pp. 145-176.

Blaisdell, Foster W.: ‘The value of the valueless: A problem in editing medieval texts’, Scandinavian Studies XXXIX (1967), pp. 40-46.

Driscoll, M. J.: ‘Words, words, words: Textual variation in Skikkjurímur’, Skáldskaparmál IV (1997), pp. 227-237.

—: ‘Levels of transcription’, Electronic textual editing, ed. John Unsworth, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe & Lou Burnard (New York, 2006), pp. 254-61.

—: ‘The words on the page: Thoughts on philology, old and new’, Creating the medieval saga: Versions, variability, and editorial interpretations of Old Norse saga literature, ed. Judy Quinn & Emily Lethbridge (Odense, 2010), pp. 85-102.

Finnur Jónsson: Udsigt over den norsk-islandske filologis historie, Festskrift udgivet af Københavns Universitet i Anlendning af hans Majestæt Kongens Fødselsdag den 26. September 1918 (København, 1918).

—: ‘Handrit og handritalestur og útgáfur’, Skírnir CV (1931), pp. 1-16.

Glauser, Jürg: ‘Spätmittelalterliche Vorleseliteratur und frühneuzeitliche Handschriftentradition: Die Veränderungen der Medialität und Textualität der isländischen Märchensagas zwischen dem 14. und 19. Jahrhundert’, Text und Zeittiefe, ed. Hildegard L. C. Tristram, ScriptOralia, LVIII (1994), pp. 377-438.

—: ‘The end of the saga: Text, tradition and transmission in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Iceland’, Northern antiquity: The post-medieval reception of Edda and saga, ed. Andrew Wawn (London, 1994), pp. 101-141.

Guðvarður Már Gunnlaugsson: ‘Stafrétt eða samræmt? Um fræðilegar útgáfur og notendur þeirra’, Gripla XIV (2003), pp. 197-235.

Hall, Alaric & Katelin Parsons: ‘Making stemmas with small samples, and digital approaches to publishing them: Testing the stemma of Konráðs saga keisarasonar’, Digital Medievalist IX (2013).

Haugen, Odd Einar: ‘The evaluation of stemmatic evidence: Recension and revision of Niðrstigningar saga’, The Sixth International Saga Conference 28.7.-2.8. 1985, Workshop Papers (Copenhagen, 1985), I, pp. 423-450.

—: Filologi og tekstkritikk: Eit norrønfilologisk synspunkt på kjerna i filologien, Eigenproduksjon 23 (Oslo, 1987 [2nd ed., 1st ed. 1984]).

—: ‘Grensa kring vitskapen: Om demarkasjonslinjer i tekstkritikken’, Tekstkritisk teori og praksis: Nordisk symposium i tekstkritikk Godøysund 19.-22. mai 1987, ed. Bjarne Fidjestøl, Odd Einar Haugen & Magnus Rindal (Oslo, 1988), pp. 63-94.

—: ‘Mål og metodar i tekstkritikken’, Den filologiske vitenskap, ed. Odd Einar Haugen & Einar Thomassen (Oslo, 1990), pp. 128-180.

—: Stamtre og tekstlandskap: Studiar i resensjonsmetodikk med grunnlag i Niðrstigningar saga (Bergen, 1992).

—: ‘Utgjevning av norrøne tekster i Noreg: Eit historisk overblik og ei metodisk vurdering’, Nordica Bergensia I (1994), pp. 137-174.

—: ‘Constitutio textus: Intervensjonisme og konservatisme i utgjevinga av norrøne tekster’, Nordica Bergensia VII (1995), pp. 69-99.

—: ‘Silva portentosa: Togreina stemmata i den arnamagnæanske tradisjonen’, Íslensk málsaga og textafræði, ed. Úlfar Bragason, Rit Stofnunar Sigurðar Nordals III (Reykjavík, 1997), 68-90.

—: ‘Tekstkritikk og tekstfilologi’, Handbok i norrøn filologi, ed. Odd Einar Haugen (Bergen, 2004), pp. 81-118.

Jakob Benediktsson: ‘Textafræði’, Mál og túlkun: Safn ritgerða um mannleg fræði, ed. Páll Skúlason (Reykjavík, 1981), pp. 19-37.

Jensen, Helle: ‘Eiríks saga víðförla: Appendiks 3’, The Sixth International Saga Conference 28.7.-2.8. 1985, Workshop Papers (Copenhagen, 1985), I, pp. 499-512.

—: ‘Profilering og standardisering af udgivelsespraksis’, Tekstkritisk teori og praksis: Nordisk symposium i tekstkritikk Godøysund 19.-22. mai 1987, ed. Bjarne Fidjestøl, Odd Einar Haugen & Magnus Rindal (Oslo, 1988), pp. 101-115.

—: ‘Om udgivelse af vestnordiske tekster’, Forskningsprofiler udgivet af Selskab for Nordisk Filologi, ed. Bente Holmberg, Britta Olrik Frederiksen & Hanne Ruus (København, 1989), pp. 208-220.

Jóhannes B. Sigtryggsson: ‘Hugleiðingar um stafréttar uppskriftir’, Gripla XVI (2005), pp. 265-286.

Jón Helgason: ‘Finnur Jónsson’, Aarbøger for nordisk Oldkyndighed og Historie (1934), pp. 137-160.

Jorgensen, Peter A.: ‘Producing the best text edition: Herculean and Sisyphean’, Scandinavian studies LXV (1993), pp. 329-337.

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