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Viking Verse

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• Modern Poetry in the Viking Style
  
• The Poetic Edda
  Translations
  Old Norse Text
• Principles of Skaldic Verse

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Modern Poetry in the Viking Style   Up to top

Poems by Christie Ward:


• Lady of Cats
• Creation

Links to modern skaldic poetry

John Myers Myers (Science fiction and fantasy author) - from the Commonwealth of Letters site
          The Death of Bowie Gizzardsbane
          (The Fall of the Alamo, as a Viking skald would have sung it.)

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Ancient Viking Verse: The Poetic Edda   Up to top

Translations

The Tale of Thrym


A translation from the Poetic Edda by George Johnston

Links to more translations

Havamal translation with notes (Sean Miller)

From D.L. Ashliman's Germanic Myths, Legends, and Sagas

Another Havamal translation (Olive Bray, 1908, ed. by D.L. Ashliman)
Rigsthula: The Lay of Rig (Olive Bray, 1908, ed. by D.L. Ashliman)

The Old Norse Text
(From Tor Gjerde's Home Page)

Principles of Skaldic Verse   Up to top

Nordic Prosody
           - from Arnaut and Karkur's ultimate online prosody resource

Formal Features of Jonas Hallgrimsson's Poetry
          - from the Jonas Hallgrimsson site

KVæDASKAPUR: Icelandic Epic Song
From the CalArts School of Music website