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Hardcover Print: $41.93 The standard edition of the Icelandic annals. WARNING: This 600-dpi reprint, though well legible, is not identical in quality to the original edition. Judge the quality of the scan for yourself at septentrionalia.net before purchase.
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Hardcover Print: $32.90 This work contains Iceland's three computistical treatises. Edited by Kålund, with a long introduction on medieval time-reckoning by Beckman. WARNING: This 600-dpi reprint, though well legible, is not identical in quality to the original edition. Judge the quality of the scan for yourself at septentrionalia.net before purchase. (This is the hardcover edition of this book, which is also available in paperback.)
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Print: $20.40 This work contains Iceland's three computistical treatises. Edited by Kålund, with a long introduction on medieval time-reckoning by Beckman. WARNING: This 600-dpi reprint, though well legible, is not identical in quality to the original edition. Judge the quality of the scan for yourself at septentrionalia.net before purchase.
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Print: $18.44 First published in 1921, this is still the authoritative index of the complex circumlocution known as the "kenning," a defining characteristic of skaldic poetry. WARNING: This reprint, though certainly legible, is not identical in quality to the original edition. Judge the quality of the scan for yourself at septentrionalia.net before purchase. (This is the paperback edition of this work, which is also available in hardcover.)
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Hardcover Print: $30.94 First published in 1921, this is still the authoritative index of the complex circumlocution known as the "kenning," a defining characteristic of skaldic poetry. WARNING: This reprint, though certainly legible, is not identical in quality to the original edition. Judge the quality of the scan for yourself at septentrionalia.net before purchase. (This is the hardcover edition of this work, which is also available in paperback.)
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Hardcover Print: $42.38 Toller's supplement to the standard Old English dictionary. WARNING: This reprint, though certainly legible, is not identical in quality to the original edition. Judge the quality of the scan for yourself at septentrionalia.net before purchase.
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Hardcover Print: $39.10 The standard Old English dictionary, split up into two parts. WARNING: This reprint, though certainly legible, is not identical in quality to the original edition. Judge the quality of the scan for yourself at septentrionalia.net before purchase.
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Hardcover Print: $39.85 The standard Old English dictionary, split up into two parts. WARNING: This reprint, though certainly legible, is not identical in quality to the original edition. Judge the quality of the scan for yourself at septentrionalia.net before purchase.
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Hardcover Print: $34.98 This second volume of the tripartite edition is misleading in its title. Rather than containing Snorra Edda proper, this volume contains other texts from Wormsbók and Uppsalabók, namely the Grammatical Treatises, Uppsala Edda, and various fragments of Eddic material in an extended sense: AM748, Orms-Edda fragment, AM757, AM1εβ, Laufáss-Edda, and a fragment concerning the old faith. Each of the grammatical treatises is accompanied by a facing neo-Latin translation. Ed. Jón Sigurðsson. WARNING: This 300-dpi reprint, though well legible, is not identical in quality to the original edition. Judge the quality of the scan for yourself at septentrionalia.net before purchase.
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Hardcover Print: $25.10 This third volume of Alfræði íslenzk contains the encyclopaedic treatise Landalýsingar according to the fourteenth-century Rímbegla manuscript AM 731, 4to, as well as a number of shorter and fragmentary encyclopaedic writings from AM 624, 4to; AM 415, 4to; AM 732b, 4to; AM 736 II, 4to; GKS 1812, 4to; AM 685d, 4to; AM 696 II, 4to; AM 736 III, 4to; AM 431, 12mo; AM 731, 4to; AM 435, 12mo; AM 461, 12mo; and AM 350, folio. AM 696 II, 4to is accompanied by a Danish translation. Ed. Kålund. WARNING: This 300-dpi reprint, though well legible, is not identical in quality to the original edition. Judge the quality of the scan for yourself at septentrionalia.net before purchase.
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Hardcover Print: $25.12 The first volume in the series Alfræði íslenzk, an initiative to publish the encyclopaedic works of early Iceland. This volume is a complete edition of the manuscript AM 194, 8vo, now in the Arnemagnæan collection in Copenhagen. The manuscript covers various scholarly topics, from geography to medicine. Ed. Kålund. WARNING: This 300-dpi reprint, though well legible, is not identical in quality to the original edition. Judge the quality of the scan for yourself at septentrionalia.net before purchase.
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Print: $15.90 A reversal of the 1860 Lexicon poeticum, resulting in a Latin-Old Norse poetic dictionary. WARNING: This 400-dpi reprint, though well legible, is not identical in quality to the original edition. Judge the quality of the scan for yourself at septentrionalia.net before purchase. (This is the paperback edition of this work, which is also available in hardcover.)
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Print: $12.20 An early standard edition of one of the well-known outlaw sagas. Ed. Finnur Jónsson. WARNING: This 400-dpi reprint, though well legible, is not identical in quality to the original edition. Judge the quality of the scan for yourself at septentrionalia.net before purchase.
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Hardcover Print: $38.53 An edition of much of the extant skaldic poetry. The B volumes represent a normalised edition and Danish translation. Ed. Finnur Jónsson. WARNING: This 400-dpi reprint, though well legible, is not identical in quality to the original edition. Judge the quality of the scan for yourself at septentrionalia.net before purchase.
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Hardcover Print: $40.55 An edition of much of the extant skaldic poetry. The B volumes represent a normalised edition and Danish translation. Ed. Finnur Jónsson. WARNING: This 400-dpi reprint, though well legible, is not identical in quality to the original edition. Judge the quality of the scan for yourself at septentrionalia.net before purchase.
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Hardcover Print: $28.40 A reversal of the 1860 Lexicon poeticum, resulting in a Latin-Old Norse poetic dictionary. WARNING: This 400-dpi reprint, though well legible, is not identical in quality to the original edition. Judge the quality of the scan for yourself at septentrionalia.net before purchase. (This is the hardcover edition of this book, which is also available in paperback.)
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Hardcover Print: $36.95 An edition of much of the extant skaldic poetry. The A volumes represent a loose diplomatic edition. Ed. Finnur Jónsson. WARNING: This 300-dpi reprint, though well legible, is not identical in quality to the original edition. Judge the quality of the scan for yourself at septentrionalia.net before purchase.
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Hardcover Print: $40.50 An edition of much of the extant skaldic poetry. The A volumes represent a loose diplomatic edition. Ed. Finnur Jónsson. WARNING: This 300-dpi reprint, though well legible, is not identical in quality to the original edition. Judge the quality of the scan for yourself at septentrionalia.net before purchase.
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Hardcover Print: $40.80 One of the large Old Icelandic manuscripts edited in its entirety, often (but controversially) associated with the encyclopaedic tradition. Ed. Finnur Jónsson. WARNING: This reprint is based on a scan of inferior quality. The quality of the print is accordingly limited. This reprint is not equal in quality to the original publication, though the text is certainly legible.
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StjórnStjórn (book)
Hardcover Print: $39.78 An Old Norse commentary to the first books of the Old Testament. Ed. Unger. WARNING: This reprint is based on a scan of inferior quality. The quality of the print is accordingly limited. This reprint is not equal in quality to the original publication, though the text is certainly legible.
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