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Craigie: Skaldic Metre.
the types of line involved, there are one or two other points
which may be adduced in support of my views. The first
of these is the position of the first tending in a dr6ttkveett
line. If the system proposed by Prof. Sievers is accepted as
valid throughout, this must, in a very large number of cases,
fall on a syllable which has not full stress: consequently no
small portion of its effect would be lost to the ear. Take,
for example, the following lines:
ohryggr vinir trjggvir
allheiiins mer reifii
svdlx263v at pvi flj6di
It is unnecessary to point out that these are types which
occur quite as freely as jarlmawws bcmi snarla, etc. Yet in
all such lines Prof. Sievers would allow only a secondary
stress to the syllable which contains the handing, so that in
reciting his poem the skald would put more emphasis on
vinir, mer and pvi than on -hryggr, -heifrins, -tydfrr. Now I
venture to think that any one who attempts to recite
dr6tt-kveett as a skald may be supposed to have done, will see
how improbable this assumption is. In lines such as ulfs
f6t vicF sker Soto, 6x hildr meet gram mildwm, such a stressing
would, I think, be quite intolerable. The most natural
presumption is that the poet, having taken the trouble to put in the
assonance, would make its presence clearly felt by
emphasizing the syllables which contained it, and this leads us
directly to the conclusion that each of these types begins
with jl jlj exactly as we have decided above.
The position of the hmdings is even more conclusive
for the type of line discussed in § 17. If we accept Prof.
Sievers’ interpretation of these as -*- ± X | ^ ^- X, the effect of
both rimes would be lost in such lines as,
ddSmWAs ok GunrihiMar
sarteina F&steini
hugreifum Aleifi
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