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Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative
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Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga NarrativeSkaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative

Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative is a study of the varying relationships between verse and prose in a series of Old Norse-Icelandic saga narratives. It shows how the interplay of skaldic verse, with its metrical intricacy and cryptic diction, and saga prose, with its habitual spare clarity, can be used to achieve a wide variety of sophisticated stylistic and psychological effects.
 
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Tags: prose, Skaldic, Narrative, verse, Poetics, Verse