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684 VON TROIL’S LETTERS ON ICELAND.
of having introduced the ufe of rhymes, which is now become fo general, that except
England, which has preferved its blank verfe, no nation in Europe is pleafed with verfes
that do not rhyme. ‘The art of rhyming, which is by no meane effential to poetry, and
{till lefs ufeful, as it only ferves to make it more difficult, was borrowed, it is not impro-
bable, from the ancient northern fkalds, and has now fpread itfelf beyond Europe ; fo
that rhyming is become as univerfal as the complaint, that the number of verfifiers in-
creafes in the fame proportion as the number of poets decreafes. . Baretti relates, that
he heard a Mofambique fong in rhyme, from fome negroes at Madrid. Gages fays
the fame of the Mexicans ; and Nixbuhr mentions that the Arabs are great rhymers.
To conclude, I here prefent you with a fpecimen of an Icelandic poem which Rug-
man compofed on the death of count Magnus de la Gardia. It was printed at Up-
fala; but is become fo fearce, that I doubt whether any perfon in Sweden has a printed
copy of it: it may at the fame time ferve to fhew the nature of a drottquade, as the
author has obferved almoftvall the rules which conftitute one.
Aut er i feggia {oti
Saknar manns i ranni
Gret ylgur Ragnvald rytto
Rom-ftamir haukar fromaft
Kund Lodbrokar ; kiendo
Kuillinda valir illra :
Kuoldrido klarar hreldoft
Kueid ari mar faft reidar
Tijd fiello tar af giodi
Tafnlaufir zpto hrafnar.
Thuarr og vid theingils dauda
Thydur morg brad, i hijdi
Skreidaft thui berfi fkizedur
Skiott marti grads, of otta :
Ox 6dum falu faxa
Frar miog or leiptri tara
Huarma beckur ad hrockin
Hraut gron a baudar nauti.
Greto fkinlaus agizetann
Gripdijr heidingia fuipuls
Verdar of feedo fordum
Fleinthings allvakran kingia :
Og i oglodum huga
Undo fier menn og hrundir
Seims kuado mundar foma
Sieirrhuor huit malar thuerri.
Heidingiar ef fua hedins
Harmadu kuanar barma
Stalir fier giordi ftala
Stijrir og Eida hiruft :
Thars i malmgutti giera
Grad thuarr og vod til brada.
Varga kna vund oborgid
Vas, thaut rafn i aft.
10 Hyvacd
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