Cite as: Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 80’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1191.
context: The metre is runhent ‘end-rhymed’, and it consists of fornyrðislag lines of Types D2 (ll. 2, 4, 5, 7) and C3 (ll. 1, 3, 6, 8) with end-rhymes that are similar throughout the stanza. Stanzas 80-94 are all examples of runhent, most of which are based on metres that have been used in earlier stanzas of Ht.
notes: The rubric in R is lxxiii. — Cf. the similar rhymes in RvHbreiðm Hl 34/1-4.
texts: ‹Ht 83›,
‹SnE 675›
editions: Skj Snorri Sturluson: 2. Háttatal 80 (AII, 73; BII, 83); Skald II, 46; SnE 1848-87, I, 696-9, III, 131, SnE 1879-81, I, 13, 83, II, 30, SnE 1931, 247, SnE 2007, 33; Konráð Gíslason 1895-7, I, 51-2.
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