Skáldaspillir's Háleygjatal. Other Skaldic meters, sch as dróttkvætt and Hrynhenda were more complex.. Dróttkvætt, meaning "courtly metre", added internal rhymes...

heiti, which are formal nouns used in place of more prosaic synonyms. Dróttkvætt metre is a type of skaldic verse form that most often use internal rhyme...

perhaps because trisyllabic names are somewhat difficult to handle in the dróttkvætt meter. According to Hilda Ellis Davidson, if Skögul means "high-towering"...

Icelandic keeps some Old Norse forms, such as fornyrðislag, ljóðaháttur, and dróttkvætt. It also has a wide variety of stanzaic forms that combine the alliterative...

constructed according to strict rules and then combined. In skaldic poetry, the dróttkvætt stanza had eight lines, each having three "lifts" produced with alliteration...

Guðmundar saga biskups by Arngrímr Brandsson. These consist of a biographical dróttkvætt poem on the bishop focusing on his wonder-working, a shorter hrynhent...

Lóðurr's name in the skaldic poem Íslendingadrápa, composed in the strict dróttkvætt metre, indicates that it contains the sound value /ó/ rather than /o/...

as N B145, refers to the pagan Norns. It has both a complete Skaldic dróttkvætt verse and Virgil's famous verse "Omnia vincit amor et nos cedamus amori"...

Icelandic skald Sigvatr Þórðarson c. 1019. It is written in the meter dróttkvætt (‘courtly spoken’). Sigvat was a court poet and trusted advisor of King...

and complex kennings in a manner that strains the syntax. Although the dróttkvætt metre violates some of the rules developed later, it is well executed;...