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rímur

Icelandic metrical romance, popular from the 15th century onwards. Composed in a variety of more or less complex verse forms blending native and foreign influences, the rímur can be combined into cycles, and they are normally based on prose tales.

In pre-Reformation rímur, heroic and chivalric themes dominate, together with fabulous adventures. After the Reformation, biblical and foreign materials are also versified, and some rímur are composed in a humorous vein, such as Jón Sigurdsson's Tímarímur/Time-Rhymes about 1700 or Gudmundur Gudmundsson's Althingisrímur/Parliament Rhymes 1902.



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