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‖ drápa|ˈdrɑːpə| Pl. drápur. [ON. drápa, prob. f. drepa to strike (cf. drepe v.).] A heroic laudatory poem of the Old Norse period.
[1843G. W. Dasent tr. Rask's Gram. Icelandic xxi. 217 After [the Toglag] the Knútsdrápa, and several other laudatory poems were arranged. ] Ibid. xxii. 223 Laudatory poems were of two kinds; a short eulogy..was called flockr..: The longer and more stately kind of these poems were the drapur. 1913W. A. Craigie Icel. Sagas i. 12 It is recorded of one man, Stúf the Blind, who was himself a poet, that he could recite more than thirty long encomia (called drápur) and as many shorter ones (flokkar). 1927E. V. Gordon Introd. Old Norse 297 The drápa had a refrain of two or four lines every two, three, or four stanzas, and usually there were several refrains. 1959A. G. Brodeur Art of Beowulf vi. 137 The tale of Hygelac's fall, which we know to be solidly historic, may have been derived..from poems of the type represented in Scandinavia by the drápa. 1968G. Jones Leg. Hist. Olaf Tryggvason 9 The well-known Hallfred..wrote a drápa or encomium on him. |