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* '''Author''': Layher, William
* '''Title''': The Big Splash. End-Rhyme and Innovation in Medieval Scandinavian Poetics
* '''Published in''': ''Scandinavian Studies'' 80/4 
* '''Year''': 2008
* '''Pages''': 407-36
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* '''Reference''': Layher, William. "The Big Splash. End-Rhyme and Innovation in Medieval Scandinavian Poetics." ''Scandinavian Studies'' 80/4 (2008): 407-36. 
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==Annotation== 
The stylistic form of the ''matière de Bretagne'' and its Norse verse prose adaptations, the Old Norse-Icelandic ''riddarasǫgur'', differ significantly. The first usage of ''knittelvers'' in medieval Norse literature appears abruptly with the translation of the ''Eufemiavisor'' in the beginning of the fourteenth century. Evidence for the impact of foreign poetry can be found in Old Swedish religious literature and runestones. Established traditions and genuine Nordic innovations of skaldic poetry were influenced by foreign structures such as end-rhyme, henceforth referred to as 'The Big Splash' by Layher, which created the unique literary form of the ''Eufemiavisor'' and ''Hǫfuðlausn''. 

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==References== 
[[Egla,_62|Chapter 62]]: '''en eg Viðris ber''': "... however, Egill‘s early end-rhymed poem did not abandon the established forms used in skaldic poetry,but merely embellished them – note, for example, that the rhyming half-lines of Egill‘s poem are still bound together through alliteration in the traditional manner." (p. 411)

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