Snorri Sturluson (SnSt)
13th century; volume 3; ed. Kari Ellen Gade;
Lausavísur (Lv) - 3
1. Fragment from a religious poem (Frag) - 1
III. Háttatal (Ht) - 102
IV. Lausavísur (Lv) - 4
IV. Skúladrápa (Skúldr) - 1
prose works Gylfaginning (Gylf) - 91
Prologue to Snorra Edda (ProlSnE) - 0
Skáldskaparmál (Skm) - 100
Snorra Edda (SnE) - 1
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SnSt HtIII
Kari Ellen Gade 2017, ‘(Introduction to) Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1094.
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Skj: Snorri Sturluson: 2. Háttatal, 1222-23 (AII, 52-77, BII, 61-88)
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Cite as: Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 54’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1163.
context: The dróttkvætt variant is called Ragnars háttr ‘Ragnarr’s verse-form’, and this and the following four stanzas (sts 55-8) illustrate metrical peculiarities that occur in the poetry of ancient skalds (fornskáld). Ragnarr is the legendary king Ragnarr loðbrók ‘Hairy-breeches’ (RloðVIII); see Ragnars saga loðbrókar (Ragn). The stanza is characterised by a lack of internal rhymes in the odd lines and by alliteration in position 2 rather than in position 1 in the even lines (anacrusis: Sievers’s Types B (l. 4) and C3 (ll. 2, 6, 8)).
notes: The heading in Tˣ is Ragnars háttr. 46. The metrical features that characterise Ragnars háttr are fairly common in the earliest dróttkvætt poetry (including a stanza attributed to Ragnarr (Rloð Lv 7/7-8VIII (Ragn 23)), but they are never carried through as systematically as in the present stanza.
texts: ‹Ht 57›,
‹SnE 649› editions: Skj Snorri Sturluson: 2. Háttatal 54 (AII, 66-7; BII, 76); Skald II, 42, NN §2276; SnE 1848-87, I, 666-9, II, 395, III, 125, SnE 1879-81, I, 9, 80, II, 21, SnE 1931, 238, SnE 2007, 24; Konráð Gíslason 1895-7, I, 32-3.
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GKS 2367 4° (R) |
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Traj 1374x (Tx) |
52r, 24 - 52r, 24 |
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AM 242 fol (W) |
146, 27 - 146, 29 |
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DG 11 (U) |
54v, 23 - 54v, 25 |
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AMAcc 18x (Acc18x) |
222, 17 - 222, 20 |
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