fornyrðislag

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Norse fornyrðislag.

Noun

fornyrðislag (uncountable)

1. An Old Norse alliterative verse form used largely in the Poetic Edda, consisting of two lifts per half-line.
   • 1967, The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter 295:

     In return, I hope to send you, if I can lay my hands on it (I hope it isn't lost), a thing I did many years ago while trying to learn the art of writing alliterative poetry: an attempt to unify the lays about the Völsungs from the Elder Edda, written in the old eight-line fornyrðislag stanza.

Old Norse

Etymology

forn (“ancient”) ‎ yrði (“words”) ‎ lag (“air, tune”), “air of ancient words”.

Noun

fornyrðislag n

1. (poetry) fornyrðislag meter

Declension

  Declension of fornyrðislag (strong a-stem, singular only)

neuter	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	fornyrðislag	fornyrðislagit
accusative	fornyrðislag	fornyrðislagit
dative	fornyrðislagi	fornyrðislaginu
genitive	fornyrðislags	fornyrðislagsins