Quiduhatt

Kviduhatt (dr.sev. Kviðuháttr from kviða "epic song" and háttr "size") - the size of skaldic poetry . Push pull size. Three-syllable lines are regularly alternated with four-syllable ones. It has no internal and final rhymes. The arrangement of alliterative syllables is freer than in other scaldic sizes.
Quiduhatt quatrain example ( Egil Skallagrimsson , Russian translation S.V. Petrova ):

This size was rarely used by skalds, but he composed the most famous skaldic works - the List of Inglings by Tiodolv from Hvinir , The Loss of Sons and The Song of Arinbjörn by Egil Skallagrimsson .