Proceedings of a conference organized by the University of Iceland in collaboration with the Nordic Society for Metrical Studies, held at Reykholt in Borgarfj�or�ur, Iceland from the 18th to the 21st of June, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface and acknowledgments / Kristj�an �Arnason -- Introduction / Frog & Tonya Kim Dewey -- Early Runic 'metrical' inscriptions : how metrical are they? / Michael Schulte -- Metrical learning and the First grammatical treatise / G�u�r�un Nordal -- On Kuhn's laws and Craigie's law in Old Icelandic poetry / Kristj�an �Arnason -- The syntax of the verb in Old Icelandic : evidence from poetry / Th�orhallur Eyth�orsson -- The effect of prosody on the linear structure of adpositional phrases in Eddic verse / Tonya Kim Dewey -- Alliteration and grammatical categories / Ragnar Ingi A�alsteinsson -- Old English feet / Chris Golston -- Accents left and right / Tomas Riad -- Formal interactions in poetic meter / Nigel Fabb -- How Germanic features can appear in Italian metrical poetry / Stefano Versace -- The poem as a site of inherited structures and artistic innovation / Sissel Furuseth -- Dipod rules : Norwegian stev, paired accents and accentual poetry Jacqueline Pattison Ekgren -- Speech-acts in skaldic verse : genre, compositional strategies and improvisation / Frog -- No royal road : the extremes of dr�ottkv�tt lines in Snorri's H�attatal / Helgi Sk�uli Kjartansson -- Gnast and brast : on metrics, enjambment and more in two ditties in G�isla saga, the shorter version / Berglj�ot Soff�ia Kristj�ansd�ottir -- Towards a theory of aesthetic rhythm / Eva Lilja -- Index.

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