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Craigiei Skaldic Metre.
345
skiBj gn&. In three cases the -r of the nominative appears
(stttfr, vifrr, sonr) withont affecting the metrical quality of
the vowel. In the greater number of the remaining cases
the word is a verb, which may have (1) an absolutely short
vowel, as gaf, vasy skal, kom etc. also with suffixed % = eh
as gqfky btcPk} gat% etc.; (2) a short vowel followed by two
or more consonants as fell, svall, vart, gekk} etc., also galt%
fdPk] (3) a final vowel, as brd, d6, frd} so also sd?ky v&k\
(4) a long vowel followed by one or more consonants, as
tetr, htytr, bau8, Mauf, also raud% Ut% etc. It is thus
clear that in the case of verbs there was not the same
absolute difference in metrical value between short and long
syllables as existed in the case of substantives. In the small
residue of lines (18) the fourth place is usually occupied by
a pronoun, most commonly mik or mer\ but sometimes sir,
sd, pat, pvt, etc. are found, and very rarely an adverb as
nu, vel.
§ 4. Lines of the /J-type, with dissyllabic word followed
by two monosyllables, as greifr&ndr d skip reifrir, are nearly
as numerous as the foregoing class; there are 113 of
them in Skjaldekvad. The proportion of substantives is
however considerably larger, owing to the fact that this type
is, almost without exception, confined to the second line of
the couplet (cf. § 14). Here we find 48 nouns, 37 of the
form sta&, bed, prom, etc. and 11 ending in a vowel as set,
gn$, bee, j67 etc. In the remaining lines the proportion of
those with a pronoun in the fourth place is very much larger
than in the a-class, there being 35 of these. Those which
have verbs in the fourth place are thus comparatively fewer,
but the types are the same as in the list given in § 3.
§ 5. In the y-class, the line opens with four
monosyllables, as ulfs f6t vitf sker 86ta or the first of these is
resolved, as faftir, vas-at, f8rurn, etc. Of this type there
are 91 examples in Skjaldekvad, and in 50 of these the
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