rimur

The tither was winsome Finn. and so forth; which was still sung, with other "rimur," or ballads, in the Faroes, at the end of the last century.

Historical Lectures and Essays Charles Kingsley 1847

Ever since the 12th century, farmers and fishermen have been helping their neighbors through the dark, lonely winters by singing poetic verse known as rimur.

Nothing But Music 2007

In our twice-weekly seminars, where we would pool the results of individual research and think sessions, we dined on fish heads and mead and piped in rimur music, that's how immersed in Iceland we were.

Another Roadside Attraction Robbins, Tom 1971

The evidence of Saxo to archaic law and customary institutions is pretty much (as we should expect) that to be drawn from the Icelandic Sagas, and even from the later Icelandic rimur and Scandinavian kaempe-viser.

The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

After the fourteenth century the chief form of Icelandic poetry were the rimur, narrative poems in ballad style, the content of which was drawn chiefly from older sagas.

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

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De medicamentorum quomodocunque purgantium facultatibus, nusquam anteà neque ... Guillaume Dupuis 1552