Hello, all!

What I am referring to when I speak of number of
syllables in a line is Snorri's description in Háttatal.

Snorri says (I'm quoting from memory) that this
line has six syllables:

"Lætr sás Hákon heitir"

He is clearly counting the unstressed syllable 'ir'
in 'heitir' but he counts 'lætr' as only one syllable.

Regards,
Haukur