Editing Alliterative verse (section)

=== Types of Old Norse alliterative verse ===
Essentially all Old Norse poetry was written in some form of alliterative verse. It falls into two main categories: [[Eddaic poems|Eddaic]] and [[Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages|Skaldic]] poetry. Eddaic poetry was anonymous, originally orally transmitted, and mostly consisted or legends, mythological stories, wise sayings and proverbs.<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1002/9780470776063 |title=Old Norse-Icelandic Literature |date=2004 |last1=O'Donoghue |first1=Heather |isbn=978-0-631-23625-2 }}{{page needed|date=December 2023}}</ref> A majority of the Eddaic poetry appears in the [[Poetic Edda]]. Skaldic poetry was associated with individual poets or skalds, typically employed by a king or other ruler, who primarily wrote poems praising their patron or criticizing their patron's enemies. It thus tends to be more elaborate and poetically ambitious than Eddaic poetry.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ross |first1=Margaret Clunies |title=Style and Authorial Presence in Skaldic Mythological Poetry |journal=Saga-Book |date=1978 |volume=20 |pages=276–304 |jstor=48612121 }}</ref>