~ 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
*New*
* Calling to Saga
*New*
* The Fight for the Necklace
* The Binding Ones
*New*
*
Gudrun
and Brynhild II
* Gerd Meets Frey
* Vanadis
Drottkvaett (Court Meter)
*
Lenctenlong
(with a small deviation from the form, but the very best modern drottkvaett I
have ever seen!)
*
The Death of
Mundilfari´s Daughter (absolutely correct form)
Fornyrðislag (Old Meter)
* Fenris Unleashed
* The
Song of the Mill
* Starkad´s Fate
* The Lay of Hildebrand
* Hakon´s Passage
version 2
*
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
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
*
Binding of the Wolf
*
Frey´s True Love
*
Hail to Ullr
*
Hoo is the Queen?
* Hakon´s Passage
version 1
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