Citations:dróttkvætt


 * 1990, Sigurður Nordal, Icelandic Culture:
 * Most scholars believe that dróttkvætt evolved gradually from fornyrðislag. True, both these meters have alliteration, and kennings can occur with considerable frequency in poems in fornyrðislag. In spite of that, the difference between the two ...
 * 2007, Christopher M. Cain, Geoffrey Russom, Studies in the History of the English Language III: Managing Chaos: Strategies for Identifying Change in English, Walter de Gruyter (ISBN 9783110198515), page 70:
 * Innovations in dróttkvætt
 * Skaldic dróttkvætt (“court meter”) regularizes the number of alliterating elements in the verse and fixes placement of alliterating syllables artificially.