kviða
nafnorðkvenkyn
u, [kveða], an epic poem, a song or ballad composed in such metre as the Völuspá, and thus to mál (a didactic poem, sentences), , drápa (heroic), , and ríma (modern ballads), : the name of several old songs, Hýmis-kviða, 105 (Bugge); Þryms-k., 124; Völsunga-k., 193; Helga-k., 112 (Möbius); í þessi kviðu, 241 (Bugge); Guðrúnar-k. in forna, 241, 242; Sigurðar-k. in Skamma, 246 ( i. 197); kviða Sigurðar, 247; k. Guðrúnar, 274; Atla-k. in Grænlenzka, 282; Hákonar-k., ix; Glælungs-k., v. 100, 108; í kviðunni, 105 new kviðu-háttr, the metre of a kviða, the epic metre such as that of the Völuspá, Beowulf, and the like, to ljóða-háttr and mál; þvíat þá þykkir betr hljóða þessar samstöfur í kviðu-hætti, 182 (Olave Hvíta-skáld); the word also occurs in the Háttatal Rögnvalds, verse 3, and is a more correct name than the usual fornyrðalag, which has no old authority, except in a lemma from a later hand in one of the verses of the Háttatal by Snorri.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- f.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
- opp.opposed.
- q. v.quod vide.
- Ed.edition, editions, edited.
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- Sæm.Sæmundar Edda. (A, C. I.)
- Fas.Fornaldar sögur. (C. II.)
- Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
- Grett.Grettis saga. (D. II.)
- SkáldaSkálda. (H. I.)