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Description and Narrative in Middle English Alliterative Poetry

, 2018
Thorlac Turville‐Petre
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Rhyme in dróttkvætt, from Old Germanic Inheritance to Contemporary Poetic Ecology I: Overview and Argument

Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2023
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]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2018
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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Rhyme in dróttkvætt, from Old Germanic Inheritance to Contemporary Poetic Ecology II: Rhyme as an Inherited Device of Old Germanic Verse

Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2023
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

Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 2022
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, Maciej Janicki, Eetu Mäkelä, Mari Sarv   +3 more
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Alliteration in Modern and Middle English: “Piers Plowman”

Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2014
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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A New Look at Old English Metrics

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1989
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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‘Thare is na leid on life of lordship hym like’: linguistic means of depicting king arthur in the poem Golagros and Gawain

Вестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филология, 2020
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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The Death of Arthur: A Critical/Creative Approach to Fourteenth-Century Alliterative Poetry

, 2017
Miranda Konar
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Between Laughter and Humility: Functions of Irony in the Middle English Poem Patience [PDF]

Alfred Nobel University Journal of Philology
The article explores the poetics of irony in the Middle English poem Patience, a distinctive reinterpretation of the biblical story of Jonah and an important example of fourteenth-century alliterative poetry.
Kseniia Vielchieva
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