Talk:Rímur

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dic def. Move to Wiktionary. - UtherSRG 14:01, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Could be turned into a respectable article, given time. &mdash;Frecklefoot 15:22, Mar 25, 2004 (UTC)
 * A perfect example of why "dictionary definition" should not be grounds for deletion. How else can stubs begin?  This is an important topic in the music of Iceland, probably made by someone following a redlink from that page. Smerdis of Tlön 15:27, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Looks a lot like the perfect stub. Warofdreams 15:30, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, now a good stub. Earlier versions were deletable however as substubs IMO. Andrewa 16:13, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep stub -- Cyrius 20:25, Mar 25, 2004 (UTC)

A question. If anyone should ever decide to expand on the stub, he will need a technical term for a single stressed foot, since the metres of the rímur consist solely of these and trochees (with dactyls sometimes optional). The most basic metre of them all (ferskeytt) is, for instance:

/x /x /x / /x /x /x /x /x /x / /x /x /x

So, what is the international term for a single stressed syllable, metrically speaking? Io 20:02, 23 May 2004 (UTC)

I altered the stub for clarity and corrected a fact or two. Right now, this is more of a declaration of intent than anything else. When time permits, which should be in June, I plan on writing a "proper" article (no promises of polished prose, however), something along the lines of: Definition, metrical forms, poetical language, history and poets. Cheers Io 11:58, 27 May 2004 (UTC)

File:Numa rimur extract.ogg
I understand the motives of this inclusion, but there are thousands of superior quality examples of rimur in existence, this horrifically bad recording of an otherwise aurally offensive piece of a capella is a horrendous introduction, let alone example, of rimur. Can we not find something slightly less terrible? .__. BaSH PR0MPT (talk) 12:12, 27 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep. This is one of the oldest recordings of rímur and not only here because it's in the public domain - it's also a good example of this style of rímur chanting (note: all known historical recordings of rímur are a capella). --Sylgja (talk) 19:23, 11 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Please do keep, having listened to hours of Rimur from the Icelandic national archives, and from a field recordist I knew decades ago in Reykjavik, I find this sample to be strident and expressive. That said there is a wide variety in how Rimur was sung as recorded in the mid-20th century, and its a shame more of it isn't available. If there is any public domain repository or commercial anthology of Rimur please let the readers know. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AnimalNorth (talk • contribs) 20:37, 11 August 2015 (UTC)


 * I included a new link yesterday to the rímur section of the Ísmús website, which is a huge online repository of historical rímur recordings. Navigation might be a bit confusing at first for non-Icelandic speakers, so I added instructions today on how to access these recordings without learning Icelandic first. --Sylgja (talk) 13:12, 13 August 2015 (UTC)