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Graigie: Skaldic Metre.
365
The word in question may or may not be a compound:
of the 115 examples of this type in Skjaldekvad 70
contain compounds, and 45 show words of other formation. The
latter I shall leave out of consideration for the present. As
regards the former, our previous distinction between first and
second lines naturally holds good, as may be seen in the
following lists.
First lines.
ok borSroins barSa
til Hdsalar hetjar
es dokkvaJir drehka
dSr grindloyi Qbndlar
en fdrhugadr fnaucti
met vectrstofum Vidris
Second lines.
hugr mdlmpndar hrugdit
ulfs tannlitttctr glitra
reyr Hdkonar dreyra
TJllr geirvaSils peira
fljott vinhonu sirrni
farmr dofgsvolu barma
The form of the second lines, it is evident, bears a
striking resemblance to the types discussed in § 14 above;
syllable for syllable, ulfs tannlituftr glitra does not differ at
all from lands frcekn jofurr granda or jarlmanns bani
snarla. This being so, there seems to be no reason against
assuming that they are metrically identical, and that the
type we are now considering is also J.\s ^^\s ^ exactly
as Prof. Sievers has it. Taking now the first lines, we see
at once that the position of the first stuftill is, and must be?
invariable. This was also the case in the lines discussed in
the previous section, in which we were led to assume that
the line began with ^. The same view is obviously tenable
here, and if we set down the metrical scheme as ^ | J- & ^ \
J- ^, we arrive at the same distinction between first and
second lines as we are already familiar with, while we avoid
varying the stress in compounds of exactly the same formx).
Here, as in the previous section, the position of the
hending ought to be of some value as an indication of how
such compounds were stressed. Examination of the various
*) The first-line type becomes less common in later verse; compare the
note to the preceding section.
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