Note 1049 — Chapter VII · THE EARLIEST DIFFERENTIATIONS OF POETRY
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Essays, p. 370; and see also Kögel, Gesch. d. d. Lit., I. 7, who thinks that Scandinavian ljóð (plural) meant once a series of these strophes composed by dancers and so coming to be a lied. E. H. Meyer, Volkskunde, p. 317, notes the independent quatrains combined into an almlied.