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A complex form of versified saga or treatment of episodes from the sagas popular in Iceland from the 15th century.

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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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...
  • 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...
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