Tarrin Wills (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Third Grammatical Treatise 26’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 554.
Band gaf oss með endum
Ilmr lýskála bála.
{Ilmr {bála {lýskála}}} gaf oss band með endum.
‘The Ilmr <goddess> of the fires of the pollack-hall [SEA > GOLD > WOMAN] gave us [me] a band with ends.’
Cited as an example of homoeoteleuton (‘omolemiton’; TGT 1927, 7): Omolemiton heldr saman margar raddir undir hinum sama enda ‘Homoeoteleuton holds together many sounds with the same ending’. He continues after the citation (TGT 1927, 71): Þat kǫllum vér riðhendan hátt. Hin sama fígúra er í hinum nýja hætti sem Snorri kvað ‘We call that the rocking-rhymed verse-form. The same figure is in inn nýi háttr [‘the new verse-form’] as Snorri said’. He then cites SnSt Ht 73/1-4 as a second example of homoeoteleuton. Riðhent ‘rocking-rhymed’ (cf. SnSt Ht 32) is where aðalhendingar in even Type D-lines are placed in metrical positions 3 and 5 with an unstressed syllable between them (here, lýskála bála).
The fourth of five unattributed dróttkvætt fragments in TGT which refer to a woman. Cf. Note to Anon (TGT) 6 [All].
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band gaf oss með endvm ilmr lyskala bala .
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Band gaf oss með endvm ilmr lyskala | bꜳla.
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