Lausavísa

The Lausavísa (in English loose stanza ) are individual stanzas of the skalds in Old Norse literature . These are "impromptu" poems that have been inserted into prose texts such as sagas in large numbers.

Web links

• List of Lausavísur in the database of the Skaldic Poetry Project.

literature

• Edith Marold :  Lausavísur. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 18, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2001, ISBN 3-11-016950-9 , pp. 139–144, ( available for a fee from GAO , De Gruyter Online).
• Rudolf Simek , Hermann Pálsson : Lexicon of Old Norse Literature (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 490). Kröner, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-520-49001-3 .