vísa
óflokkað
u; [ weise; vise], a strophe, stanza; kveða vísu, 12; hann orti kvæði ok eru þessar vísur í, v. 108; vísu lengd, the length of a stanza, () i. 606, 656: referring to the repetition of verses as a means of measuring time (minutes), ( 26); lausa-vísa, a ditty; níð-vísa, söng-visa; höldar danza harla snart, þá heyrist vísan min, a ditty: as the names of shorter poems, as, Nesja-vísur, Austrfarar-vísur, by Sighvat; Vísna-bók, a book of lays. Unlike the old Greek epics, as well as the poems of the Saxon Beowulf, all ancient Northern poetry is in strophic lays. Four sets of alliteration make a verse (vísa), two a half strophe, vísu-helmingr, () i. 610, or half vísa, ii. 148; one set a quarter of a vísa (vísu-fjórðungr); each alliterative set being again divided into two halves, called vísu-orð, a word or sentence, () i. 596, 6 ( 96, 97); thus ‘fastorðr skyli fyrða | fengsæll vera þengill’ is an alliterative set. ☞ The vellums give verses in unbroken lines, but in modern print each alliterative set is divided into two lines: this may do for metres of the drótt-kvæð kind, with two rhyming syllables in each vísu-orð; but in the brief kviðu-háttr (the metre of the ) each alliterative set should, for the sake of the flow of the verse, be printed in one line, thus, Hljóðs bið ek allar helgar kindir | meiri ok minni mögu Heimdalar; for a pause only follows between each pair of sets, but none between the sub-staves and the head-stave. This plan is that advocated by Jacob Grimm: the other, commonly followed in the Editions, chops the verse into—hljóðs bið ek allar | helgar kindir | meiri ok minni | mögu Heimdalar.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- f.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
- Germ.German.
- Dan.Danish.
- ch.chapter.
- cp.compare.
- Nj.Njála. (D. II.)
- Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
- EddaEdda. (C. I.)
- Ht.Hátta-tal. (C. I.)
- Fs.Forn-sögur. (D. II.)
- Vd.Vatnsdæla saga. (D. II.)
- Grág.Grágás. (B. I.)
- Hallfr. S.Hallfreðar saga. (D. II.)
- Vsp.Völuspá. (A. I.)