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fornyrðislag ("old story"/"epic meter") or ljóðaháttr ("song"/"chant meter"). Both fornyrðislag and ljóðaháttr verse form share similarities; such as, partial...

to contain four, and the second half-line, three syllables, while in ljóðaháttr ("song" or "ballad" meter), there were no specific syllable counts, but...

Eddaic poetry. Each stanza has six to eight lines, usually in the metre ljóðaháttr, followed by a two-line conclusion in the metre fornyrðislag, 'Heiðrekr...

(including the Abecedarium Nordmannicum) and has been compared to the ljóðaháttr verse form. The Icelandic rune poem is shown below with English translation...

form") is a common variation. The rest, about a quarter, are composed in ljóðaháttr ("song form"). The language of the poems is usually clear and relatively...

special meter named galdralag. This meter was similar to the six-lined ljóðaháttr, also used for ritual, but added at least one more C-line. Diverse runic...

caused him to fall upon his own sword. The poem is written mostly in the ljóðaháttr metre, typical for wisdom verse. The work starts out with a lengthy prose...

poem. The poem consists of 55 stanzas in total, which are composed in a ljóðaháttr meter. Stanzas 1-4 are a conversation between Odin and Frigg, which set...

rather than the simpler and older fornyrðislag ("way of ancient words"), ljóðaháttr ("song form"), and málaháttr ("speech form") metres of the Eddic poems...

The metre is differing throughout the poem. Most staves are wrote in ljóðaháttr, but there are also some in fornyrðislag and a few in galdralag. The end...

dealing with the same deity. For the most part composed in the metre ljóðaháttr, a metre associated with wisdom verse, Hávamál is both practical and philosophical...

poem presents flyting between the gods and Loki. It is written in the ljóðaháttr metre, typical for wisdom verse. Lokasenna is believed to be a 10th-century...

(Swedish and Danish) dialect of Old Norse. The first part is written in ljóðaháttr meter, and the part about Theoderic is written in the fornyrðislag meter:...

 3. Anonymous (attr. Thomas Keightley) (1829). "Om några underarter av ljóðaháttr: bidrag till den fornnorsk-fornisländska" [Scandinavian Mythology]. The...

they are closely similar in use of language, structure, style and metre (ljóðaháttr). These two poems are found in several 17th-century paper manuscripts...

forms a more coherent whole than Reginsmál. Most of it is composed in ljóðaháttr, though nine stanzas deviate from the form. The first part of the poem...

single unit, is disjoint and fragmentary, consisting of stanzas both in ljóðaháttr and fornyrðislag. The first part relates Loki's dealings with Andvari...

meter of the poem is dominantly Málaháttr, while smaller portions are in Ljóðaháttr and Fornyrðislag. Through dating of the parts as well as the meter is...

anonymous, even though it is in some manuscripts assigned to Sæmund. In 82 ljóðaháttr stanzas it gives a narrative, in which a deceased father is addressing...