In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal device to indicate the underlying metrical structure, as opposed...

150 years after his death. Skalds experimented with new metres, notably hrynhent, which uses longer lines than dróttkvætt and was probably influenced by...

of six, with the similar rules of rhyme and alliteration, although each hrynhent-variant shows particular subtleties. It is first attested around 985 in...

dróttkvætt poem on the bishop focusing on his wonder-working, a shorter hrynhent poem on Guðmundr's conversations with archbishop Þórir of Niðarós and a...

Thomas Aquinas, and rather than dróttkvætt, composed the poem in the hrynhent meter, which was closer to Latin hymnody and was subsequently nicknamed...