Meaning of fornyrðislag | Babel Free

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An Old Norse alliterative verse form used largely in the Poetic Edda, consisting of two lifts per half-line.

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“In return, I hope to send you, if I can lay my hands on it (I hope it isn't lost), a thing I did many years ago while trying to learn the art of writing alliterative poetry: an attempt to unify the lays about the Völsungs from the Elder Edda, written in the old eight-line fornyrðislag stanza.”

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