rúnhenda
nafnorðkvenkynrún-henda
u, , or rún-hending, , is the name of the metre with end-rhymes, consecutive, not alternate; the word is now obsolete, and in ancient writers it only occurs in two places, the R. verse 24 and in (), where the Reg. gives rún-, i. 696 (the foot-notes); but one is tempted to suspect that this is corrupt, and that the true form was rim-, as im and un can hardly be distinguishedin ; rím- would yield good sense, whereas rúm- is meaningless. The metre itself is evidently of foreign origin, borrowed from the : the first poem in this metre was the of Egil, who had lived in England; it was little used throughout the 10th and the following centuries, and the few poems and fragments composed in it can be traced to Egil’s poem as their prototype. The single verse in 27 is a later composition.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- f.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
- Cod.Codex.
- sqq.following.
- MSS.manuscript, manuscripts.
- A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
- ch.chapter.
- prob.probably.
- Ht.Hátta-tal. (C. I.)
- EddaEdda. (C. I.)
- Höfuðl.Höfuðlausn. (A. III.)
- Eg.Egils saga. (D. II.)