The Structure of Old Norse Dróttkvætt Poetry
1995
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The drottkvett was a form of Old Norse skaldic poetry composed to glorify a chieftain's deeds or to lament his death. Kari Ellen Gade explores the structural peculiarities of ninth- and tenth-century drottkvett poetry and suggests a solution to the mystery of the origins of the drottkvett and its eventual demise in the fourteenth century.
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Kari Ellen Gade
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Kari Ellen Gade was Provost Professor of Germanic Studies and Adjunct Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. She was the author of The Structure of Old Norse Dróttkvætt Poetry (Ithaca and London, 1995) and (with Theodore M. Andersson) Morkinskinna: The Earliest Icelandic Chronicle of the Norwegian Kings (1030-1157) (Ithaca and London, 2000). Her research interests were in Old Norse language, literature, culture and history, together with Germanic Philology and metrics. She was one of the General Editors of Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages and Volume Editor of SkP II and (with Edith Marold) SkP III.
