Note to Anon (FoGT) 24III
[All]: In this ingenious stanza, in every line of which there is full internal rhyme, words 1, 4, 5 and 8 in the first helmingr form a clause, while words 2, 3, 6 and 7 do likewise. In the second helmingr the same combination of words (1, 4, 5, 8) form another clause referring to the subject of the first clause in helmingr 1 (Haki), while words 2, 3, 6 and 7 form a second clause with Hrólfr kraki as their subject. Following the pattern established in st. 23, the poet dwells on how these two heroes met their deaths. The same two subjects are also treated in st. 27 (q.v.). The dual rhyming subjects of Haki and Kraki may have been suggested by SnSt Ht 94, where they are also juxtaposed. The metre is inn nýi háttr ‘the new verse-form’, illustrated in SnSt Ht 73.
References
- Internal references
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 73’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1184.
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 94’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1203.