Definition of Drapa. Meaning of Drapa. Synonyms of Drapa

- include the drápa, a praise poem consisting of a series of stanzas with a refrain (stef) at intervals, and the flokkr (similar to drápa, without a refrain)...
- Mirashi's reading because the term "Drapa-vardhana" is meaningless in Sanskrit. Dániel Balogh considers the reading to be "Drapa" based on a comparison of the...
- other historians identify Dravya-vardhana with the earlier Aulikara ruler Drapa-vardhana. Shastri disputes this, arguing that Varāhamihira describes Dravya-vardhana...
- poem or drápa fit for such a king, a poem in praise of his enemy. In the morning Egil went back before king Eiríkr and recited the great drápa. This twenty-stanza...
- to be the author of the poem Þórsdrápa. He is also credited with Hákonar drápa jarls and a fragment remains of a poem with Christian allusions which is...
- Óláfsdrápa Tryggvasonar (The drápa of Óláfr Tryggvason) is an Icelandic skaldic poem from ca. 1200. It relates the life story of the 10th century King...
- Wood or of the Sail or of the Rigging. Thus spake Svein in the Nordrsetu-drápa: First began to fly Fornjót's sons ill-shapen. In the þulur, Fornjót is...
- blizzard of ogress of protection-moon of steed of boat-shed" — from Þórálfs drápa Skólmssonar, by Þórður Sjáreksson (this is the longest kenning found in...
- (‘verses of an eastern journey’) — on a diplomatic journey to Sweden A drápa about King Olaf Vestrfararvísur (‘verses of a western journey’) — on a journey...
- composed by Bjarni Kolbeinsson (d. 1222), Bishop of Orkney. It is a tribute in drápa form to the fallen Jomsvikings at the Battle of Hjörungavágr. Else Mundal...