Glasgow University Publications, Volume 85Jackson, Wylie and Company, 1950 |
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... Scripture . In the religious Vísnabók of 1612 there are rímur of Ruth , Judith , Esther , and Tobit , all in very simple language and metre , as well as of the Wisdom of the son of Syrach , extending to about a thousand verses . These ...
... Scripture . In the religious Vísnabók of 1612 there are rímur of Ruth , Judith , Esther , and Tobit , all in very simple language and metre , as well as of the Wisdom of the son of Syrach , extending to about a thousand verses . These ...
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accompanied by dancing alliterate alliterative letters battle of Roncevaux best rímur chansons Charlemagne commonly continued copies couplet D.LITT Danish ballads drótt earliest rímur early rímur English romances extensive poetic vocabulary Faeröes fictitious sagas Fierabras five centuries Glasgow on April Glasgow on November Greenland Guðmundur Berg Icelandic literature Icelandic matter Icelandic poets KER MEMORIAL LECTURES KING LEAR language large number later date legend legendary and fictitious löndin M.A. Delivered mansöngur mansöngvar Middle English nineteenth century Norway nótt number of rímur old poetic word older poetry origin Otuel poem poetry of Iceland poetry which flourished popular poetry present day preserved produced purely Icelandic rarely remarkable resemble the rímur rhyme ríma rímur composed rímur-poets Roland ROMANTIC POETRY scaldic scalds sets Sigurður Breiðfjörð simple metre single rímur sixteenth century story stresses and ends subjects thirteenth century tion total number types of poetry University of Glasgow verse versified W. P. KER MEMORIAL Þórsson