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In Icelandic literature, a ríma (, literally "a rhyme", pl. rímur, ) is an epic poem written in any of the so-called rímnahættir (, "rímur meters"). They are rhymed, they alliterate and consist of two to four lines per stanza. The plural, rímur, is either used as an ordinary plural, denoting any two or more rímur, but is also used for more expansive works, containing more than one ríma as a whole. Thus Ólafs ríma Haraldssonar denotes an epic about Ólafr Haraldsson in one ríma, while Sigurður Breiðfjörð's '''' are a multi-part epic on Numa Pompilius.
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In Icelandic literature, a ríma (, literally "a rhyme", pl. rímur, ) is an epic poem written in any of the so-called rímnahættir (, "rímur meters"). They are rhymed, they alliterate and consist of two to four lines per stanza. The plural, rímur, is either used as an ordinary plural, denoting any two or more rímur, but is also used for more expansive works, containing more than one ríma as a whole. Thus Ólafs ríma Haraldssonar denotes an epic about Ólafr Haraldsson in one ríma, while Sigurður Breiðfjörð's '' are a multi-part epic on Numa Pompilius.
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