Cite as: Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 100’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1208.

Gløggva grein hefk gǫrt til bragar, svát es tírætt hundrað talit; hróðrs ørverðr skala maðr heitinn vesa, ef sá fær alla háttu ort. Gløggva grein hefk gǫrt til bragar, svát es tírætt hundrað talit; hróðrs ørverðr skala maðr heitinn vesa, ef sá fær alla háttu ort. Hefk gǫrt gløggva grein til bragar, svát tírætt hundrað es talit. Maðr skala vesa heitinn ørverðr hróðrs, ef sá fær ort alla háttu.

text prose order   I have made a clear account of poetic form, so that one hundred [stanzas] counted in tens are enumerated. A man must not be called unworthy of praise if he can compose in all verse-forms.

context: The metre is ljóðaháttr ‘songs’ form’ (heading in right margin in scribal hand). The stanza consists of six lines: two half-lines linked by alliteration (ll. 1-2, 4-5) and two full lines with internal alliteration (ll. 3, 6).

notes: For this metre, see RvHbreiðm Hl 1-2 as well as Section 4 of the General Introduction in SkP I.

texts: ‹Ht 103›, ‹SnE 695›

editions: Skj Snorri Sturluson: 2. Háttatal 100 (AII, 77; BII, 88); Skald II, 48, NN §2575; SnE 1848-87, I, 714-15, III, 134, SnE 1879-81, I, 16, 85, II, 34, SnE 1931, 252, SnE 2007, 39; Konráð Gíslason 1895-7, I, 67.

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GKS 2367 4° (R)

53r, 18 - 53r, 20

(SnE)