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lectures specifically emphasized their role in keeping the continuity of
Icelandic literature, a subject close to his heart. He also recognized that among the mass of rímur composed, there were works of art to be found, although he was of the opinion that (according to his published lectures) none of the rímur might be called a "perfect work of art" with the possible exception of
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are probably the most absurd example of literary conservatism that has ever been noted. It can be said that they remain unchanged for five whole centuries although everything around them changes. And although they frequently have little poetic value and sometimes even border on complete
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were the mainstay of epic poetry in
Iceland for centuries: 78 are known from before 1600, 138 from the seventeenth century, 248 from the eighteenth, 505 from the nineteenth and 75 from the twentieth. Most have never been printed and survive only in manuscripts, mostly in the
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Glauser, Jürg, `The End of the Saga: Text, Tradition and
Transmission in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Iceland', in Northern Antiquity: The Post-Medieval Reception of Edda and Saga, ed. by Andrew Wawn (Enfield Lock: Hisarlik Press, 1994), pp. 101–41, at p.
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cycles were composed on a subject about which a written story already existed. As a twist of fate, quite a number of now lost sagas now survive in the form of rímur composed based on them, and then the sagas were recomposed based on the corresponding rímur.
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Eponymous homepage of a society devoted to the revival of traditional
Icelandic singing. Includes information in Icelandic on traditional performance styles, and an online edition of
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and the genre as a whole. At the same time Jónas and other romantic poets were introducing new continental verse forms into
Icelandic literature and the popularity of the
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were usually adapted from existing prose sagas, and occasionally comprise the only surviving evidence for those sagas. One example of such a
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Ordbog til de af
Samfund til Udg. ad Gml. Nord. Litteratur Udgivne Rímur samt til de af Dr. O. Jiriczek Udgivne Bósarimur
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started to decline. Nevertheless, many of the most popular nineteenth- and twentieth-century
Icelandic poets composed
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University of Copenhagen about his Beck Trust lecture, ″The Icelandic Rimur” at the University of Victoria.
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tastelessness, they have demonstrated with their tenacity that they satisfy the needs of the nation peculiarly well.
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Icelandic Voice in Canadian Letters: The Contribution of Icelandic-Canadian Writers to Canadian Literature.
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Hallfreður Örn Eiríksson, 'On Icelandic Rímur: An Orientation',
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singer in Iceland: he often collaborates with the band
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Rímnakveðskapur tíu kvæðamanna: Rannsókn á tilbrigðum
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Colwill Lee and Haukur Þorgeirsson (ed. and trans.),
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858:Kvæðamennafélagið Iðunn
788:, VII, (1990), 187-201.
748:Enginn grætur Íslending
490:Colwill, Lee (trans.),
450:Extract from Núma rímur
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223:Óláfs ríma Haraldssonar
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876:Historical recordings
862:Bragfræði og Háttatal
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585:, 31 (1975), 139–150.
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956:Icelandic folk music
721:Finnur Sigmundsson,
608:, 5.3 (2005), 77–94.
553:Finnur Sigmundsson,
527:(Copenhagen, 1896).
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366:Sigurður Breiðfjörð
350:Sigurður Breiðfjörð
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681:Blómað mál í rímum
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346:Jónas Hallgrímsson
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1009:2/4 Dances
1003:Tune Types
971:Gammaldans
796:References
633:, §III.2A
472:media help
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404:'s works.
98:Núma rímur
79:alliterate
1158:Relations
1096:Harmonium
1084:Accordion
1052:4/4 Dance
1033:3/4 Dance
1021:2/2 Dance
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320:Sigur Rós
246:Skíðaríma
231:, is the
147:ferskeytt
59:epic poem
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724:Rímnatal
694:Kollsbók
556:Rímnatal
485:Editions
334:Stafnbúi
198:mansöngr
158:kennings
142:families
138:Háttatal
132:meters:
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963:General
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205:History
77:, they
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255:, and
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1090:Fiðla
1014:Polki
988:Rímur
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