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List of Icelandic language poets is a list of poets that write or have written in the Icelandic language, either in Old Norse or a more modern form of Icelandic. Hence the list includes a few Norwegians and an earl of the Orkney Islands .
Old Norse poetry encompasses a range of verse forms written in the Old Norse language, during the period from the 8th century to as late as the far end of the 13th century. Old Norse poetry is associated with the area now referred to as Scandinavia .
Skaldic poetry mainly differs from Eddaic poetry by the fact that skaldic poetry was composed by well-known skalds, the Norwegian and Icelandic poets.Instead of talking about mythological events or telling mythological stories, skaldic poetry was usually sung to honour nobles and kings, commemorate or satirise important or any current events (e.g. a battle won by their lord, a political event ...
The poem is hexametrical, written in leonine metre. It is the first example of the adaptation of this metre to Icelandic poetry, showing the influence of early modern humanism in Iceland. However, it also draws on the language of medieval Icelandic skaldic verse. Thus the poem combines Classical and indigenous traditions in a striking way. [1]
In the film Zack Snyder's Justice League, “Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu” is sung by a group of Icelandic villagers as Arthur Curry / Aquaman dives into the ocean after meeting Bruce Wayne / Batman. The village, where Batman first meets Aquaman, seems to be reliant on the latter for survival and to have built him up as a quasi-mythical figure. [1]
Twenty-first-century research has concluded that the stylistic diversity of the riddles, the demonstrable predilection of Heiðreks saga for integrating pre-existing poems, and the existence of some other riddles elsewhere in the Old Icelandic corpus make it most likely that the saga drew on pre-existing written riddles rather than all the ...
Later Icelandic poetry includes the Passion Hymns by Hallgrímur Pétursson, a collection of Christian religious poetry published in 1666. [12] Modern poets include Einar Benediktsson , a neo-Romantic poet who was an important figure in Iceland's nationalistic literary revival during the 19th century, [ 13 ] and 20th-century poets such as ...
Eyvindur has been a member of the Icelandic Language Committee as the Writer's Union 's representative. [3] In 2015, his 80th birthday was celebrated with public events at the Nordic House and the bar Sólon in Reykjavík, where scholars gave presentations about his works and career and musicians performed his poetry.