Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.10.2003, Síða 16

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Editor ’s preface
I have been indebted to many people for their help and advice at various
stages of my career when leaming Old Norse and Icelandic; I wish expressly
to thank H. M. Chadwick, Norah Chadwick, Bruce Dickins, Peter Foote,
G. N. Garmonsway and R. M. Wilson.
This edition necessitated travel primarily to The Arnamagnæan Institute
in Copenhagen. My thanks to the staff of this institute for much help and
many kindnesses. I am indebted to the Rask-0rsted Foundation in 1958, to
the research funds of Sheffield University and Auckland University, and to
the Leverhulme Trust for travel and accommodation grants, and also to the
National Bank of Denmark for accommodation in 1997.
Especial thanks go to my three Arnamagnæan consultants over the years:
first Professor Jón Helgason, who suggested that my edition should focus on
the vellum tradition, subsequently Associate Professor Davíð Erlingsson,
and finally Professor Jonna Louis-Jensen, who has been assisted in her work
by Associate Professors Mariane Overgaard and Michael Chesnutt. My
wife, Helen M. Scott, and Sarah May Anderson, Princeton, have also
participated in the preparation of this volume for the press.
I wish to thank Bent Chr. Jacobsen and Christopher Sanders for many
hours devoted to guiding early work in computing and coding, on which my
wife Helen was able to build. I am also indebted to the following for their
interest and help: Meg Cormack, Helle Degnbol, Henry Hargreaves, Agnete
Loth, Rory McTurk, Richard Perkins, Russell Poole, Jack Ross, Margit
Lave Rpnsholdt, Elizabeth Sheppard and John Tucker. By far the greatest
debt for general help is to my wife.
My book has a dual dedication - to Professor Bruce Dickins, my teacher
in Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse at Cambridge, and to my late son, Neil
Alexander Scott. The two once met at Fenner’s Cricket Ground and
earnestly discussed cricket in New Zealand.
I would like to conclude with a tribute to Hinrik Jóhannsson, who was
owner of the farm at Helgafell until his death in 2002 aged 98, for his
interest and hospitality during my studies; his son continues as farmer at
Helgafell.
Auckland, November 2003
Forrest S. Scott