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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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