 | The Structure of Old Norse @quot;Dróttkvætt@quot; Poetry The drottkvett was a form of Old Norse skaldic poetry composed to glorify a chieftain's deeds or to lament his death. Kari Ellen Gade explores the structural peculiarities of ninth- and tenth-century drottkvett poetry and suggests a solution to the... Kari Ellen Gade, Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies at Indiana University, and translator, with Theodore M. Andersson, of Morkinskinna: The Earliest Icelandic Chronicle of the Norwegian Kings (1030-1157). |
