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The earliest Old Norse metrics

Filologia Germanica
This article explores Old Norse metrical developments in the ninth century, focusing on the only securely datable evidence we have: the Rök stanza and Bragi’s poetry.
MIKAEL MALES
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Multiform Theory [PDF]

, 2022
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Frog, Mr.
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Forgotten Laxdæla poetry : a study and an edition of Tyrfingur Finnsson's Vísur uppá Laxdæla sögu [PDF]

, 2017
The paper discusses the metre and the diction of a previously unpublished small poem about characters of Laxdæla saga, composed in 18th century. The stanzas are ostensibly in skaldic dróttkvætt; the analysis shows it to be an imitation of the classical ...
Sverdlov, Ilya, Vanherpen, Sofie
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The Æsir : An Obituary [PDF]

, 2021
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Frog, Mr.
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Versification [PDF]

, 2022
Versification describes the marriage of language and poetic form through which poetry is produced. Formal principles, such as metre, alliteration, rhyme, or parallelism, take precedence over syntax and prosody, resulting in expressions becoming organised

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Dancing with the Dragon: Orality and (body) language(s) in a live performance of Beowulf [PDF]

, 2017
This paper theorizes on the function of language and embodiment in northern European storytelling through a self-reflex analysis of the author’s experience performing Beowulf in its original dialect, as a solo, while dancing. Beowulf is Min Nama involved
Kaplan, Jeff
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Creating a Norm for the Vernacular [PDF]

, 2017
The article deals with the birth of a linguistic norm in Iceland and Italy. The dis­cussion focuses on four works, which lay the foundations for the discussion of grammar and poetics in their respective vernaculars, namely Dante Alighieri’s De vulgari ...
Tarsi, Matteo
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Weaving words: Law and performance in early Nordic tradition [PDF]

, 2013
The reference to malrunar or 'speech runes' in Sigrdrifumal suggests a performative aspect to the practice of early Germanic law that transcends the swearing of oaths and the reciting of law codes attested to by literary sources.
Mees, B
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Tromdámh Guaire and Obscuritas in late-medieval Irish bardic poetry [PDF]

, 2017
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Innes, Sìm
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Egill, Snorri and the Story of a Hiatus

Scripta Islandica
This article addresses the question of the authorship of a couple of stanzas (lausa­vísur 28 and 29) attributed to Egill Skalla-Grímsson in the eponymous saga (ÍF 2: 163–165).
Bianca Patria
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