kviðuháttr

Old Norse

From kviða (“ballad, narrative poem”) +‎ háttr (“meter”).

kviðuháttr m

(poetry) a poetic meter, wherein each odd line has three positions, and each even line four

Declension of kviðuháttr (strong u-stem)

kviðuháttr in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

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