fornyrðislag
English
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Old Norse fornyrðislag.
Noun
editfornyrðislag (uncountable)
- An Old Norse alliterative verse form used largely in the Poetic Edda, consisting of two lifts per half-line.
- 1967, The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter 295:
- In return, I hope to send you, if I can lay my hands on it (I hope it isn't lost), a thing I did many years ago while trying to learn the art of writing alliterative poetry: an attempt to unify the lays about the Völsungs from the Elder Edda, written in the old eight-line fornyrðislag stanza.
Old Norse
editEtymology
editforn (“ancient”) + yrði (“words”) + lag (“air, tune”), “air of ancient words”.
Noun
editfornyrðislag n
- (poetry) fornyrðislag meter
Declension
edit Declension of fornyrðislag (strong a-stem, singular only)
neuter | singular | |
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indefinite | definite | |
nominative | fornyrðislag | fornyrðislagit |
accusative | fornyrðislag | fornyrðislagit |
dative | fornyrðislagi | fornyrðislaginu |
genitive | fornyrðislags | fornyrðislagsins |
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