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~ Special Themes:Alliterative poetry in Old Norse verse meters ~

Below are modern English poems using alliterative (stave-rhyming) Old Norse verse meters
that were in use at the time of the Eddas and Sagas.
If I forgot to list one of your poems here, please remind me !    What´s alliteration?
 

Ljóðaháttr (Song Meter)

* Blessing to Ithunn
* Sea Goddess Passion
* Calling to Saga
* The Fight for the Necklace  
* The Binding Ones
* Gudrun and Brynhild II
* Gerd Meets Frey
* Vanadis
* Odin´s Rune Song
* Rune Poem
* A Ballad to Odin
* Invocation
* Odin’s Lament
* Hail to Ullr
* Sif's Son

Drottkvaett (Court Meter)

* The Death of Mundilfari´s Daughter
* Lakeside Hunter
* Lenctenlong (with a small deviation from the form)

Fornyrðislag (Old Meter)

* Fenris Unleashed  
* The Song of the Mill  
* Starkad´s Fate  
* The Lay of Hildebrand  
* Hakon´s Passage version 2
* The Claiming of Gerd

* Sigrun and Helgi
* The Lay of Signy Volsungsdottir
* The Lay of Bileyg 
* Farmaguth 
* Skadi´s Choice  

* The Song of the Nuthatches
* Rune-Kennings  
* Loki´s Wedding Gift  
* Skadhi´s Laughter 
* Grithspell

* Almighty Frey  
* Tyr Song
* Hoder´s Song
* The Near Marriage of Thrym
* Hymn to Tyr

* Brynhild´s Hel Ride
* Brynhild´s Request
* Grotti´s Song
* Hogni and the Water Sprites
* Bravest in Battle
* The Ísland Journey

Poems with great use of alliterative techniques:

* The Fish Herd´s Words  
* At the Battle of Maldon
* Under the Cloak
* Hadding
* Odin Hanging from Yggdrasil

* The Song of Tyrfing
* Binding of the Wolf
* Frey´s True Love
* Hail to Ullr
* Hoo is the Queen?

* Hakon´s Passage version 1
* The Skaldkonger (Bard King)
* In Utgard Loki´s Hall 
* Asa-Loki
* Lady of Cats

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