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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Old Norse fornyrðislag.

Noun

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fornyrðislag (uncountable)

  1. An Old Norse alliterative verse form used largely in the Poetic Edda, consisting of two lifts per half-line.
    • 1967, The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter 295:
      In return, I hope to send you, if I can lay my hands on it (I hope it isn't lost), a thing I did many years ago while trying to learn the art of writing alliterative poetry: an attempt to unify the lays about the Völsungs from the Elder Edda, written in the old eight-line fornyrðislag stanza.

Old Norse

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Etymology

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forn (ancient) +‎ yrði (words) +‎ lag (air, tune), “air of ancient words”.

Noun

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fornyrðislag n

  1. (poetry) fornyrðislag meter

Declension

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