Íslenskt mál og almenn málfræði - 01.01.2021, Síða 22

but only a quantitative difference between Haustlǫng and younger poems
(a different percentage).
Poems provide a better metrical evidence than lausavísur (singular
-vísa, free-standing stanzas). The reasons are mostly obvious. One of
them is that they usually come from more reliable sources (sagas of kings
or Snorra-Edda rather than sagas of Icelanders). To strengthen the mes-
sage in this section, I shall, however, list odd lines without rhyme in Gísli
Súrsson’s lausavísur.26 He and the poet Kormákr are both from the sec-
ond half of the 10th century and their lausavísur have a particularly large
percentage of such lines. In 132 odd lines in Gísli’s lausavísur, the follow-
ing 22 lines are without line-internal rhyme:
3.5 þás vér í sal stum
5.3 hraun fylvingar, hremmir
7.3 ráðit hefr margra manna
7.5 ltum vér, þótt vága
9.7 svá rak snjallra brœðra
18.3 Gefn drepr fyr mér glaumi
18.5 kømr þegars ek skal blunda
18.7 oss þvær unda flóði
19.1 Sagt hef ek enn frá órum
21.1 Hverr of veit nema hvassan
21.7 drýgjum vér til dauða
23.5 ok með sér en svinna
24.5 þá munt, Ullr, ok Ilmi
24.7 þat hagar okkr til auðar
26.1 Skuluða it, kvað skorða
27.1 Hugðak þvá mér Þrúði
28.1 Hugðak geymi-Gǫndul
28.5 væri hendr á henni
28.7 svá vakði mik Sága
30.5 áðr an mik þeirs mínu27
34.3 (stór fingum ben) brynju28
36.7 koma mun dals á drengi
Þorgeir Sigurðsson22
26 Klaus Johan Myrvoll (2020) concludes that most of Gísli’s lausavísur are authentic
by examing their formal properties.
27 an and mín- do not rhyme. The second metrical position is unstressed and does not
rhyme in this metrical type (A3 Sievers type).
28 I do not take ben and bryn-ju for a rhyme, because ben is in the fourth metrical position.