The figure of _Anadiplosis_ (or the "Redouble," as it is called in the _Arte of English Poesie_) is characteristic of a certain group of Northern poems. See the note on this, with references, in _C.P.B._, i. p. 557. The poems in which this device appears are the poems of the heroines (Brynhild, Gudrun, Oddrun), the heroic idylls of the North. In these poems the repetition of a phrase, as in the Greek pastoral poetry and its descendants, has the effect of giving solemnity to the speech, and slowness of movement to the line. So in the _Long Lay of Brynhild_ (_C.P.B._, i. p. 296):-- svárar sifjar, svarna eiða, eiða svarna, unnar trygðir; and (_ibid._)-- hann vas fyr utan eiða svarna, eiða svarna, unnar trygðir; and in the _Old Lay of Gudrun_ (_C.P.B._, i. p. 319)-- Hverr vildi mer hnossir velja hnossir velja, ok hugat mæla. There are other figures which have the same effect:-- Gott es at ráða Rínar malmi, ok unandi auði styra, ok sitjandi sælo nióta. _C.P.B._, i. p. 296. But apart from these emphatic forms of phrasing, all the sentences are so constructed as to coincide with the divisions of the lines, whereas in the Western poetry, Saxon and Anglo-Saxon, the phrases are made to cut across the lines, the sentences having their own limits, independent of the beginnings and endings of the verses. NOTE B (p. 205) _The Meeting of Kjartan and King Olaf Tryggvason_ (_Laxdæla Saga_, c. 40) Kjartan rode with his father east from Hjardarholt, and they parted in Northwaterdale; Kjartan rode on to the ship, and Bolli, his kinsman, went along with him. There were ten men of Iceland all together that followed Kjartan out of goodwill; and with this company he rides to the harbour. Kalf Asgeirsson welcomes them all. Kjartan and Bolli took a rich freight with them. So they made themselves ready to sail, and when the wind was fair they sailed out and down the Borg firth with a gentle breeze and good, and so out to sea. They had a fair voyage, and made the north of Norway, and so into Throndheim. There they asked for news, and it was told them that the land had changed its masters; Earl Hacon was gone, and King Olaf Tryggvason come, and the whole of Norway had fallen under his sway. King Olaf was proclaiming a change of law; men did not take it all in the same way. Kjartan and his fellows brought their ship into Nidaros.