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Oraigie: Skaldic Metre.
355
a. lands froekn jofur granda
land sins foSur randum
p. jarlmanns bani snarla
hlautteins goSa sveini.
The second of these classes is a very frequent type of line:
in Skjaldekvad these are 174 examples of it, and only 5
of these are first lines, viz.
7 Jdrnstafr skapar cema
11 Wspell bidu Ijctir
13 Egsteins hratar arfi
17 hornstraum getum Hrlmnis
30 allvalds nutu aldir1).
The significance of these lines is at once apparent: they are
allowed to stand as first lines only because the central word
is a verb and not a noun: hence in accordance with the
results attained above, they are to be scanned as J.\J-^^\
J- ^. But whether for syntactical or metrical reasons, the
number of lines (even second lines) with a verb in this
position is comparatively small; in the great majority of cases
the central word is a substantive. Hence the general type
may be set down as -/-1 -^ & v^ | -*- ^, the secondary stress being
admissible just because it regularly falls in the second line
of a couplet.
Prof. Sievers has of course taken this /J-class as
variants of his A-line (A 2 k), and has assigned to them the
metrical value of jl ±\zx\~XJ while granting that the
a-class belong to his D-type (D 2). But the two classes
cannot properly be separated, and there is nothing against
their metrical identity, once we have recognized that
compounds have in this case the same stress as their separate
elements would have, i. e. jarlmanns, hlautteins are J- J- quite
as much as Yggs gSgl or huss dyrr (see § 27).
§ 15. This difference in stress between verbs and nouns
explains certain other notable features which meet us in lines
*) Compare Sigvat’s lines, quoted by Prof. Sievers (Altg. Metr. 108)
Aslakr hefir aukit, fastor&r skyli forffa, minn hug segi’k mownum.
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