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Ferskeytt (literally 'four-cornered') is an
Icelandic stanzaic poetic form. It is a kind of quatrain, and
probably first attested in fourteenth-century...
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human wickedness. The staves,
which are
based on
variants of the
metre ferskeytt, are
often very sentimental. From the
fourth ríma onwards, when Helgi...
- can be
grouped in
approximately ten families. The most
common metre is
ferskeytt. Ríma-poetry
inherited kennings,
heiti and
other ornate features of medieval...
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combines alliteration with rhyme. The most
common alliterative ríma form is
ferskeytt, a kind of quatrain.
Examples of
rimur include Disneyrímur by Þórarinn...
- ríma Haraldssonar, a ríma on
Saint Óláfr
Haraldsson consisting of 65
ferskeytt verses.
Preserved in Flateyjarbók, it is
sometimes considered the earliest...
- In
traditional Icelandic poetry, sléttubönd is a type of
ferskeytt, more
precisely a
quatrain with a
strict rhyming scheme and a
fixed number of syllables...
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consists of
three rímur, each in a
different verse form. The
first is in
ferskeytt, the
second in
braghent and the
third in stafhent. The rímur are only...
- The
cycle consists of four rímur, the
first in
stafhent and the rest in
ferskeytt meter. The rímur are
preserved in only one
medieval m****cript, Staðarhólsbók...
- work is
literary though the
diction is simple. The ríma
consists of 65
ferskeytt verses.
There is no mansöngr. Ólafs ríma is
often considered the earliest...
