Talk:Old Norse poetry

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The Eggjum Stone is certainly important for all sorts of reasons, historical and linguistic, but does it really belong on a list of "Important examples of Norse poetry" next to Hávamál and Völuspá? Io 17:29, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Alliterative verse

There is an article (and a very good one, IMO) under development, Alliterative verse, which overlaps Old Norse poetry to a considerable degree. Any thoughts about how we might avoid reduplication of effort? Cheers Io 16:13, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

The Eggjum Stone

I removed the reference to the Eggjum Stone after careful consideration. I really do not believe it counts as an example of important Norse poetry. It is important as an example of runic writing and as evidence of language development, but not as poetry. If it is an emotional matter for anyone, just undo my change. I won't make an issue out of it — at least not without discussion. Cheers Io 16:20, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

you have a point. My idea was to point to the possibly earliest known sample: If the stanza is correctly identified, it would be a very important example of Old Norse poetry, since it would be the oldest record by far (the Edda was written down some 400 years later). But seeing that it is really fragmentary, and maybe not poetry at all, I won't insist to include it here. dab 07:29, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)

True. But there are poems of a similar age recorded, although the actual writing down took place much later (some of the Edda poems, the poetry of Bragi Boddason and of some of ~~ghe~~ the court poets of Haraldur hárfagri - although the latter of these are a century younger). My main objection to the Eggjum Stone is, that it hardly qualifies as poetry. If we include that we might as well include the inscription of the Golden Horns. Cheers Io 16:36, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)