Show:
Metrical Forms
Kennings
Poetic Forms
Riddles
Ki ng Harald
100
The two types of Old Norse Poetry are Eddaic and this.
What is Skaldic?
100
Battle-sweat, slaughter-dew, and wound-sea.
What are blood?
100
These were lost when Old Norse was changed from the Germanic language.
What are the unstressed syllables?
100
A riddle is put forth as a _____ to be solved.
What is a puzzle?
100
The Heimskringla is a series of these.
What are saga-histories?
200
Eddaic poetry includes the poems of the __________ Regius, while Skaldic poetry is everything else not already mentioned.
What is Codex?
200
Breaker of rings.
What is chieftan or king?
200
This has two lifts per half line, with two or three unstressed syllables.
What is Fornyrdislag?
200
The two types of riddles are _______ and __________.
What is enigmas and conundrums.
200
Snorri Sturluson is the most celebrated figure in _________ literature.
What is Icelandic?
300
Old Norse poetry is characterized by this, a type of device where the first letter of successive words are the same.
What is alliteration?
300
What is sleep of the sword and flame-farewelled?
What is death?
300
A variant form of Fornysdislag.
What is malahattr or "speech meter"?
300
Problems generally expressed iin metaphorical or allegorial language.
What are enigmas?
300
Harald was freed from the dungeon by this person.
Who is a woman his brother Olaf had healed?
400
An important source of information about poetic forms in Old Norse is the Prose Edda of ___________ ____________ .
What is Snorri Sturluson.
400
What are seeds of the Fyris Wolds, serpent's lair, and Sif's hair?
What are gold?
400
This means "song" or "ballad metre" and is a stanzaic verse form that created four line stanzas.
What is Ljodahattr?
400
Questions relying for their effects on punning in either question or answer.
What are conundrums?
400
The name of the people that followed Harald
What is the Varangians?
500
Drottkvaett is referred to as this type of metre.
What is "courtly" ?
500
Lord of the gallows and Hanged god.
What is Odin?
500
This means "lordly verse" and added internal rhymes and other forms of assonance. It had 8 lines, each having three lifts.
What is Drottkvaett?
500
The collection of bound verses and maxims which were found in the Exeter Cathederal in the 11th century.
What is the Exeter Book?
500
Harald used this animal to take over the first city in Sicily.
What are birds?