Megan Hartmann
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Article
2026 Chapter 9. Speech acts in
ljóðaháttr
: The case of
Lokasenna
From Carving Runestones to Digitizing Skaldic Poetry: Studies in Germanic philology and historical linguistics, Bolter, David, Erin Noelliste, Christopher D. Sapp and Lane Sorensen (eds.), pp. 134–151 | Chapter
This paper combines analysis of meter and syntax with speech act theory to analyze how the poet of Lokasenna effectively uses ljóðaháttr meter to put rhetorically effective insults into the mouth of the titular character. The result is a verbally virtuosic performance in which Loki profoundly… read more