Mss R, Tˣ and C contain exactly the same sequence of þulur, which indicates that all three mss ultimately derive from the same archetype, but in terms of variants, ms. A and partially in B (also represented selectively by 744ˣ in the present edition). The same collection of þulur, with certain minor changes in the order of subject matter and augmented by twenty-four additional lists comprising another sixty-eight stanzas and 1,083 heiti, is preserved in ms. A sequence of thirty-five þulur, which consists of 106 stanzas enumerating a total of 1,500 heiti, is appended to Skm in mss R, Tˣ and C (cf. At the same time, certain peculiarities of their content, such as the abundance of terms which were never used in poetry and a substantial learned component contained in a number of the þulur, indicate that at least in part these enumerations might have been compiled not so much for utilitarian but rather for encyclopedic purposes (see below).Ĭomposed presumably in the second half of the twelfth century or at the beginning of the thirteenth (though some lists of heiti may have been compiled after 1250), the þulur are found in two main redactions, both transmitted in the mss of SnE, where they are added to the end of Skáldskaparmál ( Skm). Þul Boga) to twelve stanzas ( Þul Sverða), were evidently composed primarily for mnemonic and educational purposes and are likely to have been intended as reference lists for poets. These enumerations, in fornyrðislag metre and varying in length from a half-stanza (e.g. The þulur (Anon Þulur) are versified catalogues of poetic terms ( heiti) for the main subjects of skaldic verse. Elena Gurevich ĥ6. Hugar heiti ok hjarta (Hugar ok hjarta) - 1
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