Skáldaspillir's Háleygjatal. Other Skaldic meters, sch as dróttkvætt and Hrynhenda were more complex.. Dróttkvætt, meaning "courtly metre", added internal rhymes...

heiti, which are formal nouns used in place of more prosaic synonyms. Dróttkvætt metre is a type of skaldic verse form that most often use internal rhyme...

perhaps because trisyllabic names are somewhat difficult to handle in the dróttkvætt meter. According to Hilda Ellis Davidson, if Skögul means "high-towering"...

Icelandic keeps some Old Norse forms, such as fornyrðislag, ljóðaháttur, and dróttkvætt. It also has a wide variety of stanzaic forms that combine the alliterative...

constructed according to strict rules and then combined. In skaldic poetry, the dróttkvætt stanza had eight lines, each having three "lifts" produced with alliteration...

Guðmundar saga biskups by Arngrímr Brandsson. These consist of a biographical dróttkvætt poem on the bishop focusing on his wonder-working, a shorter hrynhent...

Icelandic skald Sigvatr Þórðarson c. 1019. It is written in the meter dróttkvætt (‘courtly spoken’). Sigvat was a court poet and trusted advisor of King...

as N B145, refers to the pagan Norns. It has both a complete Skaldic dróttkvætt verse and Virgil's famous verse "Omnia vincit amor et nos cedamus amori"...

and complex kennings in a manner that strains the syntax. Although the dróttkvætt metre violates some of the rules developed later, it is well executed;...

formally compounds, notwithstanding widespread tmesis. In the following dróttkvætt stanza, the Norwegian skald Eyvindr skáldaspillir (d. ca 990) compares...

was installed in 1202. Grimsby is noted in the Orkneyinga Saga in this Dróttkvætt stanza by Kali Kolsson: Grimsby had no town walls. It was too small and...

one Haukr Valdísarson, a man otherwise unknown. The poem consists of 26 dróttkvætt stanzas and the first two lines of the 27th. At that point, the preserved...

with Jon Birgersson, Archbishop of Nidaros. The poem is composed in the dróttkvætt metre and it is the earliest completely preserved drápa with Christian...

Lóðurr's name in the skaldic poem Íslendingadrápa, composed in the strict dróttkvætt metre, indicates that it contains the sound value /ó/ rather than /o/...

147–8; Eyvindr Finnsson skáldaspillir, Lausavísur, stanza 1 (written in dróttkvætt): "Valkyrie's-game, avengers – / awaits not sitting still now – / wish...

is that he was one of the court poets of Earl Eiríkr Hákonarson. Eight dróttkvætt verses by him are extant, preserved in the kings' sagas. They contain...

battles waged by King Harald, mostly as he was uniting Norway. Composed in dróttkvætt, only seven stanzas and two half-stanzas are preserved, chiefly in the...

supplement the completed story line. Baldur's lyrics conform to the rules of dróttkvætt, the Old Norse alliterative verse, while music combines folk melodies...

Micmac (Algonquian), Old Norse (North Germanic) poetry (specifically, drottkvætt), Drehu and Cemuhî correspondences (Oceanic), Copainalá Zoque (Mixe-Zoquean)...

to the king's call for verses commemorating the victory, composed in dróttkvætt the following two lausavísur: These are the only verses attributed to...

only preserved in Bergsbók and the text there is defective. After 16 dróttkvætt verses, there is a lacuna of an estimated 40 verses followed by 12 preserved...

Skaldic meters such as dróttkvætt. In particular, N B145 dates to the first half of the thirteenth century and contains a full dróttkvætt stanza, the first...

Knútsdrápa, the Tøgdrápa is composed in the metrical form töglag, a variant of dróttkvætt which may have been invented at King Canute's court. According to Skáldatal...

from his upbringing in Russia to his fall at Svöldr. It consists of 35 dróttkvætt verses. The poem's name derives from its refrain (Old Norse stef) which...

only for containing a rare Skaldic love poem in the form of a complete dróttkvætt stanza, but also a quote from the classical Latin poet Virgil, illustrating...

and gave his name to the god. He has been credited with inventing the dróttkvætt meter characteristic of skaldic poetry, possibly under the influence of...

across the Baltic Sea, it is also engraved with an Old Norse poem in dróttkvætt, the lordly meter which was used when skalds praised lords and kings....

Ortsnamentypen, 1963 Kleine Schriften, 1969-1978 Das alte Island, 1971 Das Dróttkvætt, 1983 Das altnordische Seekriegswesen, 1991 Andreas Heusler Deutsche Biographische...

September 2024. Björn K. Þórólfsson (1950). "Dróttkvæði og rímur" [On dróttkvætt and rímur]. Skírnir (in Icelandic). Reykjavík. Retrieved 10 September...

actually anonymous and in the simple fornyrðislag meter, rather than ornate dróttkvætt. It thus has much in common with the poems of the Poetic Edda. The later...