vindandin forna

Noun

 * 1)  'the ancient use of '; the use of letter v before an r in poetry
 * 2) * c. 1250,, Third Grammatical Treatise
 * "non"

- Auferesis er gagnstaðlig prothesi, ok tekr hon af upphafi ords staf eða samstǫfu, sem þá at v sé af tekit í þessu nafni vrungu, þvíat þyðerskir menn ok danskir hafa v fyrir r í þessi nafni ok mǫrgum ǫðrum, ok þat hyggjum vér fornt mál vera, enn nú er þat kallat vindandin forna í skaldskap, þvíat þat er nú ekki haft í norrænu máli.

Usage notes

 * In Norwegian and Icelandic, the letter v was lost before r in the 900s, which resulted in earlier, becoming , . In the oldest preserved poetry, however, these words consistently alliterate with words beginning with v-, like ,.