Lausavísa
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In Old Norse poetry and later Icelandic poetry, a lausavísa (pl. lausavísur) is a single stanza composition, or a set of stanzas unconnected by narrative or thematic continuity.
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It is catalogued under the topic Skaldic poetry.
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In Old Norse poetry and later Icelandic poetry, a lausavísa (pl. lausavísur) is a single stanza composition, or a set of stanzas unconnected by narrative or thematic continuity.
Lausavísur are often introduced in the text of sagas with the phrase þá kvað (then said).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lausavísa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.