Preface Acknowledgments List of Tables and Figures Abbreviations 1 Introduction 1 The Four Studies of the Research Project 2 The Motivation behind This Project 3 The Challenges Inherent in This Project 4 The Structure of This Book2 The Theoretical Framework 1 Information-Structural Theories and Notational Conventions 2 Working Definitions 3 Old Norse and Syntactic Variation 4 Research Gap3 Criteria for the Choice of Material 1 On Old Norwegian 2 The Text Selection 3 The Manuscript and Its Accessibility4 Corpus Presentation and Methodology 1 Some Theoretical Assumptions 2 Information Status and Prosodic Weight 3 Corpus Annotation 4 The Database 5 Potential Sources of Errors5 Main Findings 1 Study I: The Object Position in Old Norwegian: An Interplay between Syntax, Prosody, and Information Structure 2 Study II: Historical Punctuation in Old Norse: Visual Reflexes of Information Structure 3 Study III: Modifying Variation: The Adjective Position in Old Norwegian 4 Study IV: My Kind of Variation! Possessives in Old Norwegian6 Summary and Conclusions 1 Research Framework and Context 2 Concluding Remarks Appendix Bibliography--Source of Data Index.