Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kari Ellen Gade

Titel

Type A

Ist Teil von

• The Structure of Old Norse "Dróttkvætt" Poetry, 2018, p.131

Ort / Verlag

Cornell University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In Type Al¹, the alliterating staves fall in positions 1 and 3 and the internal rhymes in positions 1 and 5. The lines consist of the syllabic sequence SS+ SS+ SS, and positions 2, 4, and 6 are occupied by enclitic inflectional endings. Long nominal syllables (“heavy dips”) can occur in position 3, for example, Jór 2:3sỳnisk svartleitr reyni(see also Eg lv 30:1, Eyv lv 10:3, 10:7, þjsk IV, 5:1).¹ Depending on the filler of positions 1-2, odd Al¹-lines are either sentence introductory or sentence continuing. If a finite verb occupies positions 1-2 (52 lines), the line is