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VI From the turn of the century to Jan de Vries
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The Swedish philologist Erik Noreen, son of the grammarian Adolf
Noreen, was highly critical of the attempts at the archaeological dating
of Eddie poetry back to the period of the great migrations (cf. Noreen
1921b: 2; 1926: 129), despite the faet that Nerman had used Noreen’s
own philological results. On the basis of linguistic and metrical evid-
ence he has nevertheless given new arguments for Neckel’s view that
the linguistically motivated terminus a quo 800 is not an absolute
boundary. In a critical and intelligent survey of Old Norse poetry, ap-
pearing the same year as the final version of Schiick’s history of liter-
ature, he summed up the actual State of knowledge concerning the
age of the Eddie poems by stating that the poems originated in the
period 500-1200, most of them probably in the middle of this long
period.73
Erik Noreen represents an advanced, modem phase in Eddie scholar-
ship in so far as he was now in a position to refer critically to a number
några kronologiska resultat” (Nerman 1971: 36). - In his articles from 1958 onwards Ner-
man has commented on the following passages: Akv. 3, 16 (aringreypom) - 1971: 30-31;
Akv. 5 (stafri) - 1971: 31; Akv. 6 - 1971: 31; Akv. 7 (higlt or gulli, skigid hvltastan) -
1971: 32-33; Akv. 8 - 1971: 33-34; Akv. 21 - 1971: 34; Akv. 27 - 1971: 35; Akv. 39 -
1971: 35-36; Am. 13,46, 70,72,95 - 1963b: 132-33; Am. 87, 103 (kisto steinda, lids an-
nal) - 1963b: 133; GSr. I 18 (iarknasteinri) - 1962: 51; GSr. III 9 (iarknasteinn) - 1962:
49; HHv. 8 (varit gulli) - 1960: 238-39; HHv. 9 (hringr i hjald, ormr dreyrfåadr) - 1960:
238-42; Hjålm. - 1958b; HlpSskv. - 1961b; Rp. 7, 21, 34 (ioso vatni) - 1969: 18; Rp. 16
(dvergar)- 1969: 15; Rp. 29 (kinga)- 1969: 17; R[>. 32 (vardirkålkar) - 1969: 17; Rp. 34
(silki) - 1969: 15-16; Rp. 38 (hid sundr baug) - 1969: 16-17; Sd. 6 (Tyr) - 1961a: 62; Sd.
7 (glrunar) - 1961a: 61; Sd. 8 (signafull) - 1961a: 64; Sd. 17 (heill) - 1961a: 63; Sg.
65-70 (SigurSr’s and Brynhildr’s funeral) - 1960: 242-46; Skm. 19 (epli algulliri) - 1971:
22; Skm. 21 - 1971: 22; Skm. 23, 25 (nueki miovari) - 1971: 22-23; Skm. 36 - 1971: 23;
Skm. 37 (hrimkålkr) - 1971: 23-24; Prk. 6 (gullbgnd) - 1963b: 127; Ork. 13 and Ork. 19
(Brlsinga men etc.) - 1963b: 128; Ork. 32 (skillinga) - 1963b: 130-31; Vkv. 5 (gimfastan,
lindbauga) - 1971: 24-27; Vkv. 7-1971: 27; Vkv. 13, 14, 17, 18,21 - 1971: 27-29; Vkv.
25, 35 (iarknasteinri) - 1962: 49-50 and 1971: 29-30; Vsp. 8 - 1958a: 3; Vsp. 36 (sax) -
1958a: 2-3; Vsp. 38 - 1958a: 3; Vsp. 45 (skegg) - 1958a: 1-2; Vsp. 55 - 1958a: 3^1; Vsp.
60 (Fimbultys runar) - 1970: 206-07; Vsp. 61 (gullnar tgflor) - 1963a: 122-25; Vsp. 61 -
1970: 206-07.
73 “Om man vill hålla sig till vad som verkligen kan bevisas, måste man enligt min
mening numera sammanfatta vår kunskap om eddadikternas ålder och hemort ungefar så-
lunda: diktema åro av hogst olika ålder; de ha tillkommit under tiden 500-1200, flertalet
antagligen någonstans i mitten av denna långa period; de aro forfattade i Norge och på
Island, dock finns intet som forbjuder antagandet att aven de ovriga nordiska folken kunna
vara representerade, ej heller att enstaka diktér kunna vara tillkomna i vastnordiska
kolonier som Gronland, Shetland etc. Enstaka diktér kunna vara rena oversåttningar av
sydgermanska (gotiska, frankiska etc) original” (Noreen 1926: 139).