> There´s a variety of styles, some quite hymnlike, and even
> one to the tune of "Oh My Darling Clementine" (374)! But also many
> where it actually says "X kveður..." (so-and-so chants, intones...)
> 508-515 have multiple performers. I wonder if alliterative verse
> was ever done in this way?

Some things to keep in mind:

1. All Icelandic poetry (or almost all) is alliterative;
even when there is end-rhyme the alliteration is still present.

2. Much Old Norse poetry has some form of rhyme in addition
to the alliteration.

3. The old alliterative meters (fornyrðislag) continued to be
used in Iceland through the ages.

So I don't think there's anything problematic with chanting
fornyrðislag strophes. I don't know if you can find examples
on Ísmús but I think you can somewhere obtain recordings of
Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson, the late high priest, chanting parts
of the Sæmundar-Edda.

I can't, however, vouch for a living tradition of chanting
fornyrðislag throughout the second millennium.

Kveðja,
Haukur