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Alliteration

Repeating initial sounds across nearby words. Not rhyme as end-sound match, and not a tongue-twister dump alone.

Norse tradition

Alliteration appears in Norse tradition.
Eddic verse in the Poetic Edda is built on alliterative binding of stressed sounds across the line. A named Old Norse alliteration craft in that corpus, not end-rhyme and not a tongue-twister dump.
from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014
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Poetic Edda · Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation)
The Poetic Edda, trans. Carolyne Larrington.