Scaldry

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Skaldry is a modern term in literary studies in Scandinavian Medieval Studies for the special genre of poetry, the skalds of Old Norse literature , or Old West Norse poetry. The poetry of the Skaldik does not belong to the corpus of the genre Eddic poems from the so-called Song Edda of the Codex Regius .

Is formal characteristics of this seal usually the achtversige building a verse to two halves in the schema of alliteration . The Skaldik is characterized by an artful poetry driven into the highest forms of claim, in relation to the use of a large number of different meter measures and especially in the development and development of stylistic devices, such as the use of paraphrases and word images ( Kenningar , Heiti ) and their artistic integration into the metric structures. Poetry led to an impressive bloom in the emerging court culture in the form of the highly complex and complicated meter des Dróttkvætt , the court tone.

The poetry of the Skaldik ranges from the early Middle Ages of the 9th century to the early modern period in which this poetry was written. The skalds are mostly Norwegians and Icelanders and are known by name. The transmission, especially of the early and high medieval works, is partly only fragmentary, often indirectly through quotations from other authors / recipients, for example as insertions in the prosextual context of saga literature . In the oldest, early medieval poetry, pagan mythological materials are often used, which in the course of Christianization and monastric writing culture expand into Christian-spiritual content. In the late Middle Ages, the classic Skaldik was replaced by a change in the metric towards the genre of the Rímur . The less strict Rímur, which presented the stylistic devices such as the paraphrases of the Skaldik, was the preferred genre for poetry in Iceland from the 14th century until the 20th century.

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