fornyrðislag, which means "old story metre". Fornyrðislag is the more commonly used Eddic meter, and is often used for narrative poems. Fornyrðislag formally...

poems. The Eddic poems are composed in alliterative verse. Most are in fornyrðislag ("old story metre"), while málaháttr ("speech form") is a common variation...

base, Common Germanic alliterative meter is what Old Norse poets termed fornyrðislag ("old story meter"). More complex verse forms imposed an extra layer...

by Lorenz Frølich. Original title Vǫluspǫ́ Language Old Norse Meter Fornyrðislag Full text The Elder Edda and the Younger Edda/Elder Edda/The Vala's Prophecy...

which is usually described as "conversational style." It is similar to fornyrðislag except that there are more syllables in a line; usually five. Poems with...

the metre ljóðaháttr, followed by a two-line conclusion in the metre fornyrðislag, 'Heiðrekr konungr | hyggðu at gátu' ('consider this riddle, King Heiðrekr')...

133–134, 163 are defective. Stanzas 81–84 are in málaháttr, 85–88 in fornyrðislag. The entire section of 81–102 appears to be an ad hoc interpolation....

poem. Most staves are wrote in ljóðaháttr, but there are also some in fornyrðislag and a few in galdralag. The end is in the lost part of the manuscript...

The metre of the poem alternates irregularly between málaháttr and fornyrðislag. This may be an indication that two or more original poems have been...

Södermanland, Sweden, a father grieving his dead son used the same verse form, fornyrðislag, as in the Poetic Edda in the following engraving: Jansson (1987) notes...