• text related to this article: Edda Snorri Sturluson's Háttatal in the original language Háttatal, Old Norse Alliterative verse Old Norse poetry Skald v...
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    providing lists of kennings and heiti (approximately 50,000 words); and Háttatal, which discusses the composition of traditional skaldic poetry (approximately...
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    Fenrir is mentioned in three books: Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál and Háttatal. In chapter 13 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, Fenrir is first mentioned...
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    The second part of the Prose Edda is the Skáldskaparmál and the third Háttatal. The work is often attributed to or considered to have been compiled by...
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    1968; a version was published in 1983. Gömlu lögin, 1945. Bragfræði og háttatal, 1953. Stuðlagaldur, 1954. Vandkvæði, 1957. Reiðljóð, 1957. Heiðin, 1984...
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    Heimdall is mentioned in the books Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál, and Háttatal. In Gylfaginning, the enthroned figure of High tells the disguised mythical...
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  • calls such examples nýgervingar and exemplifies them in verse 6 of his Háttatal. The effect here seems to depend on an interplay of more or less naturalistic...
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  • god connected with the sea, and Bragi, the skaldic god of poetry; and Háttatal, a demonstration of verse forms used in Norse mythology. Gesta Danorum...
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    used as a common noun for "wolf" in chapter 64 of the Prose Edda book Háttatal. Geri is referenced in kennings for "blood" in chapter 58 of Skáldskaparmál...
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  • Glaðr (section Háttatal)
    Glaðr along with other horses such as Blóðughófi, Grani and Árvakr. In Háttatal, Glaðr is used as a heiti for a horse in a kenning for a ship. List of...
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  • hundreds of ríma meters: Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson counts 450 variations in his Háttatal. But they can be grouped in approximately ten families. The most common...
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    the pike with his own hands. The Prose Edda sections Skáldskaparmál and Háttatal contain several references to Rán. Section 25 of Skáldskaparmál ("How shall...
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    mentioned in all four books; Prologue, Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál, and Háttatal. In Heimskringla, composed in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, Thor...
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  • Snorra Sturlusonar: Formáli, Gylfaginníng, Bragaræður, Skáldskaparmál et Háttatal. Vol. 1. Copenhagen: sumptibus Legati Arnamagnæani. 1848. p. 580. Halldór...
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  • Around a hundred meters are known, many only from Snorri Sturluson's Háttatal. One of the simpler skaldic meters was kviðuháttr, a variant of fornyrðislag...
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    Norse verse forms are given in the Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson. The Háttatal, or "list of verse forms", contains the names and characteristics of each...
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    heiti for a helmet in Nafnaþulur, and is attested in the skaldic poetry of Háttatal: The heiti valgǫltr is also used in Hrafnsmál as part of a battle kenning:...
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  • Einarr must have had some fame as a poet, as his name is used in the Háttatal, an examination of Old Norse poetry written in the thirteenth-century,...
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  • lausavísa, is all that survives of his work. But according to Snorri's Háttatal, he was also the author of a drápa about the story of Sigurðr. This drápa...
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    Egilsson (ed.) Edda Snorra Sturlusonar: eða Gylfaginníng, Skáldskaparmál og Háttatal (1848) (archive.org), pp. 45–143 Guðni Jónsson (ed.), Eddukvaeði,Íslendingasagnaútgáfan...
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  • Skáldskaparmál are organized alphabetically by subject. The last part, Háttatal, was not included. Due to its popularity, the Laufás redaction later became...
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