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Rímur
In Icelandic literature, a ''ríma'' (, literally "a rhyme", pl. ''rímur'', ) is an epic poem written in any of the so-called ''rímnahættir'' (, "rímur meters"). They are rhymed, they alliterate and consist of two to four lines per stanza. The plural, ''rímur'', is either used as an ordinary plural, denoting any two or more rímur, but is also used for more expansive works, containing more than one ríma as a whole. Thus ''Ólafs ríma Haraldssonar'' denotes an epic about Ólafr Haraldsson in one ríma, while '' Núma rímur'' are a multi-part epic on Numa Pompilius. Form ''Rímur'', as the name suggests, rhyme, but like older Germanic alliterative verse, they also contain structural alliteration. ''Rímur'' are stanzaic, and stanzas normally have four lines. There are hundreds of ''ríma'' meters: Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson counts 450 variations in his ''Háttatal''. But they can be grouped in approximately ten ''families''. The most common metre is '' ferskeytt''.Véstein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steindór Andersen
Steindór Andersen (born 1954) is an Icelandic musician. Steindór is noted for his Rímur chanting and is most widely known for his collaborations with the band Sigur Rós. Other collaborations include with Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson and rapper Erpur Eyvindarson. Discography * 2001: '' Rímur EP'' (featuring Sigur Rós) * 2002: '' Rímur & Rapp'' (joint with Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson and Erpur Eyvindarson * 2003: ''Rímur'' * 2004: ''Úlfhamsrímur'' * 2013: ''Stafnbúi'' (joint with Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson) ;Appearances After the Folk Music Festival in Siglufjörður, July 2007, where Steindór is a regular guest, another guest musician at the festival, Evan Harlan of the group Andromeda, impressed with Steindór's chanting of the ''rímur'', composed the piece "Steindór Gets the Blues". The music was premiered in Boston, the home of the Icelandic-American group, later the same month. Steindór also appears on Sigur Rós's 2007 DVD release, ''Heima'', performing "Hugann seiða sv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rímur (album)
''Rímur'' is a limited EP record released independently by Sigur Rós featuring Steindór Andersen performing ''rímur''. It was sold during the band's spring 2001 tour. Only 1000 copies of the EP were printed. A live performance of "Á ferð til Breiðafjarðar vorið 1922" with Steindór later appeared on the band's 2007 DVD release ''Heima ''Heima'' (; ''at home'') is a documentary film and double DVD set about the tour around Iceland in the summer of 2006 of the band Sigur Rós. During the tour the band played two big open-air concerts at Miklatún - Reykjavík (30 July) and Ásby ...''. Track listing References 2001 EPs Sigur Rós albums {{2000s-post-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lokrur
''Lokrur'' is an Icelandic mythological ''rímur'' cycle dated to . It narrates the journey of the god Thor to Útgarða-Loki, a myth also preserved in Snorri Sturluson's 13th century ''Prose Edda'' part ''Gylfaginning''. Compared with the version in ''Gylfaginning'', the ''Lokrur'' version is often more detailed, with fleshed-out descriptions where ''Gylfaginning'' has an understated and terse text. The cycle consists of four ''rímur'', the first in {{lang, is, stafhent and the rest in ''ferskeytt'' meter. The ''rímur'' are preserved in only one medieval manuscript, '' Staðarhólsbók''. Synopsis First ríma The first verse of the first ''ríma'' addresses a woman and asks her to listen to the tale. The ''ríma'' then introduces the gods Odin, Thor and Loki (verses 2-5). The story starts with Thor asking Loki for his aid in meeting his namesake Útgarða-Loki (v. 6-7). Loki is reluctant, warning Thor that Útgarða-Loki is a fearsome troll (v. 8). Thor tells Loki that he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigur Rós
Sigur Rós () is an Icelandic post-rock band from Reykjavík, active since 1994. The band comprises singer and guitarist Jón Þór "Jónsi" Birgisson, bassist Georg Hólm, and keyboardist Kjartan Sveinsson. Known for their ethereal sound, frontman Jónsi's falsetto vocals, and their use of bowed guitar, Sigur Rós incorporate classical and minimal aesthetic elements. Jónsi's vocals are sung in Icelandic and non-linguistic vocalisations the band have termed ''Vonlenska''. They have released seven studio albums and five EPs since their formation. History 1997–1998: ''Von'' and ''Von brigði'' Jón Þór "Jónsi" Birgisson (guitar and vocals), Georg Hólm (bass) and Ágúst Ævar Gunnarsson (drums) formed the group in Reykjavík in January 1994. The band's name means Victory Rose. They took their name from Jónsi's younger sister Sigurrós, who was born a few days before the band was formed. They soon signed a record deal with the local Sugarcubes-owned record labe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson
Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson (; born 23 April 1958), also known as HÖH, is a musician, an art director, and ''allsherjargoði'' (''chief goði'') of Ásatrúarfélagið ("the Ásatrú Association"). Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson was a pioneer in the use of computers when composing music and cleared the path for new ideas in recording and arrangements. He has worked on ambitious, experimental and original projects with various musicians, such as Psychic TV, Current 93, Sigur Rós, Steindór Andersen and Eivør Pálsdóttir. From early bands to the birth of Þeyr From 1972 to 1975 he was playing drums in a school band called Fatima with guitarist Jóhannes Helgason, bassist Birgir Ottóson and singer Guðmundur Eyjólfsson. In 1974 singer Eiríkur Hauksson replaced Guðmundur and guitarist Sigurgeir Sigmundsson joined them and a year after they broke up. By 1979 Hilmar Örn was playing drums and occasionally the synthesizer in a band called Fellibylur (Hurricane) with vocalist Magnús ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skíðaríma
''Skíðaríma'' () is a humorous Icelandic ríma, of unknown authorship, dated to around 1450–1500. Summary The hero is the audacious and inventive beggar Skíði, who was apparently a historic figure from the 12th century. It was also a real event that he had a dream in 1195, and it is this dream that is the matter of ''Skíðaríma''. Skíði dreams that Óðinn sends Þórr to fetch Skíði in order to broker peace between Heðinn and Högni as their incessant war about Hildr threatens to destroy Valhalla. Skíði manages to make peace by asking to marry Hildr and finding her willing. However, as Skíði could not stop mentioning the word ''God'' in front of the Æsir, and finally makes the sign of the cross, Heimdallr struck him in the mouth with the Gjallarhorn. However, some of the Einherjar side with Skíði, whereas others are against him. A great battle ensued with a great many heroic deeds, some of them done by the pathetic beggar himself, until finally Sigurðr t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnur Jónsson
Finnur Jónsson (May 29, 1858 – March 30, 1934) was an Icelandic-Danish philologist and Professor of Nordic Philology at the University of Copenhagen. He made extensive contributions to the study of Old Norse literature. Finnur Jónsson was born at Akureyri in northern Iceland. He graduated from Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík in 1878 and went to Denmark for further studies at the University of Copenhagen. He received a doctorate in philology in 1884 with a dissertation on skaldic poetry. He became a docent at the university in 1887 and a professor in 1898, serving until 1928. After retiring he continued work on his subject with new publications until the year he died. He was elected member of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg in 1905 and corresponding member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities in 1908. Finnur's principal area of study was Old Norse poetry. His three most important works are ''Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skáld-Helga Rímur
''Skáld-Helga rímur'' ('the ''rímur'' of Poet-Helgi', also ''Skáldhelga rímur'' or ''Skáldhelgarímur'') is an Icelandic ''rímur''-poem from the 1400s. The poem comprises seven ''rímur'', based on a now lost '' Íslendingasaga'', '' Skáld-Helga saga'', set around the first half of the eleventh century. Each ''ríma'' begins with a ''mansöngr''. The main character is the poet Helgi Þórðarson, portrayed as a retained of Erik Håkonsson and Olaf the Holy. Later he travels to Rome and meets the Pope, before proceeding to Greenland, where he ends his days as a law-man at Brattahlíð. The main theme of the ''rímur'' is the passionate love between Helgi and his betrothed, Þórkatla, from whom he is separated by fate and by human wickedness. The stephes, which are based on variants of the metre ''ferskeytt'', are often very sentimental. From the fourth ''ríma'' onwards, when Helgi goes to Greenland, there are also lurid supernatural elements: Helgi's boat is boarded by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferskeytt
''Ferskeytt'' (literally 'four-cornered') is an Icelandic stanzaic poetic form. It is a kind of quatrain, and probably first attested in fourteenth-century ''rímur'' such as ''Ólafs ríma Haraldssonar''. It remains one of the dominant metrical forms in Icelandic versifying to this day. ''Ferskeytt'' comprises odd-numbered, basically trochaic lines with four stresses in the pattern / x / x / x /, alternating with even-numbered trochaic lines with three stresses in the pattern / x / x / x. In each line, one unstressed syllable may be replaced with two unstressed syllables. Stanzas are normally of four lines, and rhyme aBaB. In the first line, two heavily-stressed syllables alliterate with the first heavily-stressed syllable of the second line, and so on in the usual alliterative pattern of Germanic alliterative verse. An example of the form is this verse by Jónas Hallgrímsson, with a translation into the same metre by Dick Ringler Dick Ringler is an emeritus Professor of Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bjarkarímur
''Bjarkarímur'' is a 15th-century Icelandic ''rímur'' cycle on the Skjöldungs (the Scyldings of ''Beowulf''), and retells among other things the adventures of Hróarr (Hroðgar) and his brother Helgi (Halga), and those of Böðvarr Bjarki. It appears to be based on the lost ''Skjöldunga saga'' and is one of the extant sources of information on that work. References * Jónas Kristjánsson, Eddas and Sagas: ''Iceland's Medieval Literature'', trans. by Peter Foote Peter Godfrey Foote (26 May 1924 – 29 September 2009) was a scholar of Old Norse literature and Scandinavian studies. He inaugurated the Department of Scandinavian Studies at University College London, and headed it for 20 years. Early life a ... (Reykjavík: Hið Íslenska bókmenntafélag: 1988), p. 353. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bjarkarimur Old Norse poetry Rímur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson
Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson (4 July 1924 – 23 December 1993) was an Icelandic religious leader and singer of rímur who was instrumental in helping to gain Icelandic government's recognition of the pre-Christian Heathenry in the country. Biography Sveinbjörn lived his entire life in West Iceland Borgarfjörður. From 1944 on, he was a sheep farmer while also pursuing literary interests on the side. He published a book of rímur in 1945, a textbook on the verse forms of rímur in 1953, two volumes of his own verse in 1957 and 1976, and edited several anthologies. He was married to Svanfríður Hagvaag with whom he had two sons, born in 1965 and 1966. The Ásatrúarfélagið ("Fellowship of Æsir faith"), which he co-founded in 1972, and for which he acted as ''allsherjargoði'', was officially recognised as a religious body in 1973. Sveinbjörn is regarded with much respect and affection amongst Germanic neopagans. Not only was he a well known rímur singer, or ''kvæðam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ólafs Ríma Haraldssonar
''Ólafs ríma Haraldssonar'' is a 14th-century '' ríma'' by the Icelandic poet and official Einarr Gilsson on the career of Saint Óláfr Haraldsson (King Olaf II) of Norway. The work is preserved in Iceland's ''Flateyjarbók'', from around 1390, and was probably composed a couple of decades earlier. The narrative follows the account of Óláfr's life in ''Heimskringla'', focusing on the Battle of Stiklestad and Óláfr's miracles after his death. The work is literary though the diction is simple. The ''ríma'' consists of 65 '' ferskeytt'' verses. There is no '' mansöngr''. ''Ólafs ríma'' is often considered the earliest ''ríma''. References *Poole, Russell G. (1991). Viking Poems on War and Peace'. University of Toronto Press The University of Toronto Press is a Canadian university press founded in 1901. Although it was founded in 1901, the press did not actually publish any books until 1911. The press originally printed only examination books and the university cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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