--- In
norse_course@yahoogroups.com, Haukur Thorgeirsson
<haukurth@...> wrote:
[...]
> Árni Böðvarsson was one of the best-known Icelandic poets of
> his time. While much of his work is too highly-wrought and
> opaque to be appreciated by most modern writers there are
> some simple strophes here and there:
[...]
> Ákaft veður, úlfa seður, undvarg meður
> herinn gegn um þar næst þveran,
> þótti ei dróttum drótt af ótta.
[...]
Pretty damn fascinating stuff !!!
I wonder whether this skáldskapr is still alive now or
thrives rather like a decoration as if a modern Greek
resorted to hexameters ?
BW
Eugene