SOURCE: Kellogg, Robert. “Literacy and Orality in the Poetic Edda.” In Vox intexta: Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages, edited by A. N. Doane and Carol Braun Pasternack, pp. 89-101. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.
In the following essay, Kellogg explores the origins of the Elder Edda as oral poetry and its preservation in written manuscripts, including the prose adaptation of Snorri Sturluson.
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