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Synonymy and rank in alliterative poetry
This paper addresses the high sonic demands of alliterative metres, and the consequences of these demands for sense: the semantic stretching of common words and the deployment of uncommon (archaic, 'poetic') words.
Jonathan Roper
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This paper is the first in a three-part series or tryptic that argues for the Old Germanic origins of rhyme in the Old Norse dróttkvætt meter. This meter requires rhymes on the stressed syllables of two words within a six-position line, irrespective of ...
Frog
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Old english poetic paraphrases of the song of the three youths from the poems Daniel and Azarias [PDF]
The paper contains the translations of the two Old English poetic paraphrases of the Song of the Three Youths, preserved in the poems Daniel and Azarias. The translation follows the principle of equilinearity.
Maria Yatsenko
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This paper is the second in a three-part series on the distinctive type of rhyme in the Old Norse dróttkvætt meter, argued to have emerged through the metricalization of uses of rhyme within a short line found across Old Germanic poetries.
Frog
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Heroic register, oral tradition, and the Alliterative Morte Arthure [PDF]
The Middle English Alliterative Morte Arthure (the Morte henceforth) begins with an appeal by the poet for his audience to listen to him as he tells his tale, thus asking them to focus on the aurality of his words.
Mouser, Rebecca Richardson
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Recognising Intertextuality in the Digital Corpus of Finnic Oral Poetry
While digital corpora have enabled new perspectives into the variation and continuums of human communication, they often pose problems related to implicit biases of the data and the limited reach of current methods in recognising similarity in ...
Kati Kallio +3 more
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English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary History [PDF]
English Alliterative Verse tells the story of the medieval poetic tradition that includes Beowulf, Piers Plowman, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, stretching from the eighth century, when English poetry first appeared in manuscripts, to the sixteenth
Eric Weiskott
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Alliteration in Modern and Middle English: “Piers Plowman”
William Langland’s 8000-line fourteenth-century poem Piers Plowman uses an alliterative rhyme scheme inherited from Old English in which, instead of a rhyme at the end of a line, at least three out of the four stressed syllables in each line begin with ...
Peter Sutton
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It has recently been marked that the figure of king Arthur in Scottish literature is rather controversial: on the one hand, Arthur is a noble and valiant knight; on the other hand, he is an arrogant invader whose aim is to conquer the whole world.
A. G. Stoliarova
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Punctuating Old English Poetry: Challenges and Strategies [PDF]
As in other early language traditions, premodern English poetry was written out with very light punctuation. The sparsity of manuscript punctuation appears especially problematic in the period before 1200, when poetry in English lacked visual linebreaks.
Eric Weiskott
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