[Sca-cooks] song about one of our members

[Laura C. Minnick]

david friedman wrote:
>
> >--
> >This Viking Saga was just written about our own Dame Selene
<snip>

> It's entertaining, but it isn't a saga.
>
> The sagas were prose histories and historical novels. They
> occasionally had skaldic verses embedded in them. What you quoted is
> not prose, nor is it skaldic verse.

Correct. But it does resemble the form used for _Beowulf_. Which is not
Norse/Viking, but Anglo-Saxon; and while _Beowulf_ qualified as a saga,
this poem isn't nearly long enough. An interesting study of verse form,
however.

'Lainie