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Edda. Scandinavian Journal of Literary Research

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 7, 2024
Entity authorityQ3436882 ↗
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Edda. Scandinavian Journal of Literary Research (Norwegian: Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning) is a magazine for research on Scandinavian literature, and for literary researchers in the Scandinavian countries. The magazine is based in Oslo.

History

Edda was founded by Gerhard Gran in 1914. The magazine's first publishing house was Aschehoug. Gran edited the magazine until his death in 1925. Literary historian Francis Bull was editor-in-chief from 1925 to 1960. Edvard Beyer edited the magazine from 1962 to 1972. Åse Hiorth Lervik was editor from 1972 to 1985.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1914, 1925, 1960, 1962—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1914. The account is most persuasive where Edda, Scandinavian and Journal can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as journal. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 7, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q3436882. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1914, 1925, 1960 and 1962.

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This entry incorporates text from “Edda. Scandinavian Journal of Literary Research” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.