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Rhyme in dróttkvætt, from Old Germanic Inheritance to Contemporary Poetic Ecology I: Overview and Argument

Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2023
This paper is the first in a three-part series or tryptic that argues for the Old Germanic origins of rhyme in the Old Norse dróttkvætt meter. This meter requires rhymes on the stressed syllables of two words within a six-position line, irrespective of ...
Frog
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Rhyme in dróttkvætt, from Old Germanic Inheritance to Contemporary Poetic Ecology II: Rhyme as an Inherited Device of Old Germanic Verse

Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2023
This paper is the second in a three-part series on the distinctive type of rhyme in the Old Norse dróttkvætt meter, argued to have emerged through the metricalization of uses of rhyme within a short line found across Old Germanic poetries.
Frog
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How inaccurate rhymes reveal Old Norse vowel phonemes

Maal og Minne, 2023
This article discusses so-called inaccurate rhymes in Old Norse dróttkvætt poetry and their bearing on the phoneme structure of Old Norse. Inaccurate rhymes between /ǫ/ and /a/ do occur, but were to some extent avoided in Old Norse poems in the eleventh ...
Þorgeir Sigurðsson
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A skald in royal service – the case Þórarinn loftunga. Part 2: Poetics and ideology of Tøgdrápa

Studia Maritima, 2021
The present study is focused on Tøgdrápa (Journey drápa), a poem Þórarinn devoted to Knútr’s expedition to Norway in 1028. A distinguished feature of Tøgdrápa is its metre – tøglag (journey metre).
Jakub Morawiec
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Rhyme in dróttkvætt, from Old Germanic Inheritance to Contemporary Poetic Ecology III: The Old Norse Poetic Ecology

Studia Metrica et Poetica
This paper is the third in a three-part series that develops a model for the background of rhyme in Old Norse dróttkvætt poetry as a formalization of the same form of rhyme found across Old Germanic poetries.
Frog
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A SELECTION OF SKALDIC POEMS [PDF]

Studia Litterarum, 2016
Rendering skaldic poetry into another language is a challenge for translators. The main feature of this poetic system is its highly intricate form governed by rigid rules.
Elena A. Gurevich
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Mythological Names and dróttkvætt Formulae I: When is a Valkyrie Like a Spear?

Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2014
This article explores patterns of language use in oral poetry within a variety of semantic formula. Such a formula may vary its surface texture in relation to phonic demands of the metrical environment in which it is realized.
- Frog
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Mythological Names and dróttkvætt Formulae II: Base-Word-Determinant Indexing

Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2014
This article explores patterns of language use in oral poetry within a variety of semantic formula. Such a formula may vary its surface texture in relation to phonic demands of the metrical environment in which it is realised.
- Frog
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Mythological Names and dróttkvætt Formulae III: From Metric-Structural Type to Compositional System [PDF]

Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2015
This article explores patterns of language use in oral poetry within a variety of semantic formula. Such a formula may vary its surface texture in relation to phonic demands of the metrical environment in which it is realised. This is the third part of a
- Frog
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The Karlevi runestone

Manuscript and Text Cultures, 2023
The Karlevi runestone, on the island of Öland, off the south-east coast of Sweden, is inscribed with the only known full stanza of Old Norse skaldic verse in Viking Age runes (that is, from approximately AD 750–1100). It is generally dated to the end of
Heather O'Donoghue
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