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Östergötland Runic Inscription 165
Östergötland Rune Inscription 165 ( Ög 165) is a runestone located between () and the town square in Skänninge. It is made of grey granite and is 230 cm tall. On the front of the runestone is the first part of the text, up until the word "suniʀ" (English: ''sons''). It continues on the left side until the end of the text. The signature of the carver can be found on the right side. The verse is a half stanza of fornyrðislag, a form of alliterate verse which was popular in Old Norse. The stone was discovered in recent times during repairs carried out at Vårfrukyrkan in 1874 and had been used as a threshold at the north door. In '' Östergötlands runinskrifter'' (English: ''Östergötland's Runic Inscriptions'') (1911), Erik Brate observed that the stone bears some resemblance to inscription Ög 87 near the Högby Church in Göstring Hundred. He speculates that Torun was the widow of Toste and that the stone was taken from there when the Church of Our Lady was built. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliterate Verse
In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal device to indicate the underlying metrical structure, as opposed to other devices such as rhyme. The most commonly studied traditions of alliterative verse are those found in the oldest literature of the Germanic languages, where scholars use the term 'alliterative poetry' rather broadly to indicate a tradition which not only shares alliteration as its primary ornament but also certain metrical characteristics. The Old English epic ''Beowulf'', as well as most other Old English poetry, the Old High German ''Muspilli'', the Old Saxon ''Heliand'', the Old Norse ''Poetic Edda'', and many Middle English poems such as ''Piers Plowman'', ''Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'', Layamon's Brut and the ''Alliterative Morte Arthur'' all use alliterative verse. While alliteration is common in many poetic traditions, it is 'relatively infrequent' as a structured characteristic of poetic form. However, st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
