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Stev is one of the forms of poetry , that can be found in lyric poetry from Scandinavia.

There are different types of stev:

• gamle-stev ^[1] , is the oldest type. It is likely that gamle-stev were danced. ^{[ref 1]} <br.>

Gamle-stev have been found,that have an origin , from around the end of the 1200's.^{[ref 2]}

Of the gamlestev that have not been lost, most of them are from Setesdal and Vest-Telemark .

Some gamle-stev might be part of folk songs, where the rest of the folk song has not been handed over, from generation to generation .

• ny-stev ^[2] have probably been around since about year 1700. ^{[ref 2]}

In Telemark , ny-stev have been replaced by rural folksongs , to a great degree. By contrast, ny-stev in Setesdal have held much of their ground.

• om-kved ^[3] are similar to refrains in ballads .<br.> ( Inn-stev ^[4], etter-stev^[5], mellom-sleng ^[6] and etter-sleng ^[7] are different types of om-kved. )
• slåtte-stev ^[8] are instrumental dancetune songs
• herme-stev ^[9] contain apologetic proverbs (also known as Wellerisms ).

A person who can perform a stev, is known as a kveder (or "kvedar"), in Norwegian .

A kveder from Setesdal, when performing stev, generally sings more slowly, than a kveder from Telemark. ^{[ref 3]} <br.> One reason for this, may be that the text of Setesdal stev, are often more meditative ( or elegiac ) . ^{[ref 3]}

Stev consists of stanzas, that have four lines ^{[ref 2]}

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