lausavísa

{{Short description|Form of Old Norse and later Icelandic poetry}}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).

References

  • [http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/Carmina_Scaldica Carmina Scaldica]