[5]: The repetition in this line’s penultimate syllable of þegn ‘warrior’, occurring earlier in the line, appears to be an example of samhending or samhenda, i.e. ‘coincidental rhyme’ (so Faulkes in SnE 2007, 137), i.e. rhyme falling on the same syllable as the alliteration and in cases of full rhyme producing identical syllables. Other examples are found in RvHbreiðm Hl 57-8III and SnSt Ht 46-8III; see further SnE 2007, 52.
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 2007 = Snorri Sturluson. 2007. Edda: Háttatal. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Rǫgnvaldr jarl and Hallr Þórarinsson, Háttalykill 57’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1066.
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 44’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1153.