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Prototypes and structures in eddic poetry [PDF]

, 2017
Seiichi Suzuki, The Meters of Old Norse Eddic Poetry: Common Germanic Inheritance and North Germanic Innovation (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, Band 86). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2014.
Árnason, Kristján
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Word upon a word : parallelism, meaning, and emergent structure in Kalevala-meter poetry [PDF]

, 2017
This essay treats parallelism as a means for articulating and communicating meaning in performance. Rather than a merely stylistic and structural marker, parallelism is discussed as an expressive and cognitive strategy for the elaboration of notions and ...
Tarkka, Lotte
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Is literary language a development of ordinary language? [PDF]

, 2010
Contemporary literary linguistics is guided by the 'Development Hypothesis' which says that literary language is formed and regulated by developing only the elements, rules and constraints of ordinary language.
Fabb, Nigel
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Mythological Names and dróttkvætt Formulae III: From Metric-Structural Type to Compositional System

Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2015
This article explores patterns of language use in oral poetry within a variety of semantic formula. Such a formula may vary its surface texture in relation to phonic demands of the metrical environment in which it is realised. This is the third part of a
- Frog
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Parallelism and Orders of Signification (Parallelism Dynamics I) [PDF]

, 2017
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Frog, Mr.
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Beginning from the end : Strategies of composition in lyrical improvisation with end rhyme [PDF]

, 2017
The target of this paper is to analyze the structural and rhetorical principles that seem to be emblematic of extempore composition in all three of these rhymed forms of oral poetry.1 The analysis focuses on the methods that improvisers employ in the ...
Sykari, Venla
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Antiquarianism Underground: The Twentieth-century Alliterative Revival in American Genre Poetry [PDF]

, 2021
Although alliterative poetry—a medieval Germanic meter based on similar-sounding initial stressed syllables—first flourished in Old English and Old Norse literature, a resurgence of the meter has appeared within the twentieth century.
Dennis Wise
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Skule jarl, Snorre og den historiske bakgrunnen åt "Fagrskinna" [PDF]

, 2023
I studiet av norrøn sogelitteratur hev det fest seg ei meining um at berre islendingar kann ha skrive kongesogor med eit fullt framvakse prosimetrum, d.e. med mange og til dels lange skaldesitat ispedde prosaen.
Klaus Johan Myrvoll
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Jómsvíkinga Sǫgur and Jómsvíkinga Drápur: texts, contexts and intertexts [PDF]

, 2014
Using theories of intertextuality the paper explores the implications of the complex transmission of Jómsvíkinga saga, with its multiple manuscripts, versions and cross-references in other texts.
Jesch, Judith
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The many virtues of the strange Type Eε. Metre, Semantics and intertextuality in dróttkvætt

Filologia Germanica
The pattern which Eduard Sievers defined as “Eε” is the only line-type in dróttkvætt to have a trisyllabic word in the final metrical positions 4-6, thus deviating from the otherwise ubiquitous disyllabic closing (positions 5-6).
BIANCA PATRIA
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