Craigie, William A.. On some Points in Skaldic Metre

• Author: Craigie, William A.
• Title: On some Points in Skaldic Metre
• Published in: Arkiv för nordisk filologi 16, Ny följdt 12
• Year: 1900
• Pages: 341-84
• E-text: runeberg.org
• Reference: Craigie, William A.."On some Points in Skaldic Metre."Arkiv för nordisk filologi 16, Ny följdt 12 (1900): 341-84.

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This article presents objections to the system established by Eduard Sievers (Altgermanische Metrik, 1893) for metric rules in dróttkvætt and fornyrðislag. Using Konráð Gíslason's Udvalg af oldnordiske skjaldekvad (1892) as corpus for a statistic analysis, Craigie argues that dróttkvætt and fornyrðislag follow similar rules in terms of length and primary stress, while two types of dróttkvætt can be distinguished on the basis of the secondary stress's presence or absence.

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