Lie, Hallvard. Skaldestil-studier

• Author: Lie, Hallvard
• Title: Skaldestil-studier
• Published in: Maal og minne 44
• Year: 1952
• Pages: 1-92
• E-text:
• Reference: Lie, Hallvard. 1952. "Skaldestil-studier." Maal og minne 44 (1952): 1-92.

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• Key words: poetry (kveðskapur)

Annotation

Hallvard Lie takes exception to the common theory that Egill Skallagrímsson had learned his runhenda either from Old English riming poets or from rimed hymns in the church in England. Instead he suggests that Egill may have learned the trick of riming from exorcism rituals used at his own prímsigning, a text he feels sure Egill must have heard, if the saga is not wrong about this event in his life.

See also

• Stefán Einarsson. The Origin of Egill‘s Skallagrímsson‘s Runhenda (p. 54).

Links

• Written by: Stefán Einarsson
• Icelandic translation: