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  • While the Eddic poems are simple, the Skaldic poems are extremely artificial in structure and language, employing alliteration and assonance, as well as making elaborate use of such rhetorical devices as heiti and kenningar (metaphors and figurative paraphrases).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

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