The Háttatal (Old Norse: 'Tally of Metres'; c. 20,000 words; Old Norse: [ˈhɑːtːɑtɑl], Modern Icelandic: [ˈhauhtaˌtʰaːl̥]) is the last section of the Prose...

providing lists of kennings and heiti (approximately 50,000 words); and Háttatal, which discusses the composition of traditional skaldic poetry (approximately...

Fenrir is mentioned in three books: Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál and Háttatal. In chapter 13 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, Fenrir is first mentioned...

The second part of the Prose Edda is the Skáldskaparmál and the third Háttatal. The work is often attributed to or considered to have been compiled by...

calls such examples nýgervingar and exemplifies them in verse 6 of his Háttatal. The effect here seems to depend on an interplay of more or less naturalistic...

Heimdall is mentioned in the books Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál, and Háttatal. In Gylfaginning, the enthroned figure of High tells the disguised mythical...

1968; a version was published in 1983. Gömlu lögin, 1945. Bragfræði og háttatal, 1953. Stuðlagaldur, 1954. Vandkvæði, 1957. Reiðljóð, 1957. Heiðin, 1984...

Around a hundred meters are known, many only from Snorri Sturluson's Háttatal. One of the simpler skaldic meters was kviðuháttr, a variant of fornyrðislag...

god connected with the sea, and Bragi, the skaldic god of poetry; and Háttatal, a demonstration of verse forms used in Norse mythology. Gesta Danorum...

used as a common noun for "wolf" in chapter 64 of the Prose Edda book Háttatal. Geri is referenced in kennings for "blood" in chapter 58 of Skáldskaparmál...