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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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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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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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A New Look at Old English Metrics
In this paper I propose a scansion of Old English alliterative poetry in terms of a binary branching template. The analysis builds on work by Halle and Keyser (1971) and Maling (1971), but has two advantages over these analyses: (a) it provides a natural
Huettner, Alison K.
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The paper deals with the linguistic and poetic analysis of the formula 'X maþelode' ('someone said') in comparison to other ways of introducing direct speech in the Old English heroic epic poem Beowulf.
Natalya Yu. Gvozdetskaya
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The Finnic Tetrameter – A Creolization of Poetic Form?
This article presents a new theory on the origins of the common Finnic tetrameter as a poetic form (also called the Kalevala-meter, regilaul meter, etc.).
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