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. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Lectures and Essays] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Nothing But Music] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Another Roadside Attraction]
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
Eafdemcnii3i plantas cxpe - rimur, quibufdaminIocismagis, inalijs minus prae - ftantcs producijVt prsetcrThcophraftiauthoritatcmj. ocularis cxpcrientia doccr. From Wordnik.com. [De medicamentorum quomodocunque purgantium facultatibus, nusquam anteà neque ...] Reference
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