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Metre and clitics in Old English and Old Saxon
This article attempts to extract prosodic information from Germanic (here, Old English and Old Saxon) alliterative poetry by integrating multiple theoretical frameworks.
Nelson Goering
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Tradition and Innovation in Old English Metre
The importance of metrical analysis to the broad work of textual criticism and literary analysis cannot be overstated. In the thirty years since the publication of R. D. Fulk’s A History of Old English Meter, metrical theory has been brought to bear on questions of poetic style, dating and literary history, linguistics and language history, editing ...
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Did Old English Verse Have a “Morphological” Metre?
AbstractThe revision of the four-position theory of Old English metre by Yakovlev (2008) has had a considerable impact, both for its simplification of Sievers’ (1893) metrical principles, and for its supposed shift to a “morphological” rather than an “accentual” metrical type.
Nelson Goering, Goering Nelson
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Book review of Burns, Rachel A., and Rafael J. Pascual, eds. 2022. Tradition and Innovation in Old English Metre. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press. Pp. xii + 281. ISBN 1802700250.
Daniel Donoghue
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On Ælfric and Old English Metrical Theory
In 2016, Thomas A. Bredehoft wrote a reply to my criticism of his theory of Old English metre, according to which Ælfric's rhythmical compositions ought to be considered verse rather than prose.
Rafael J. Pascual
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Imitative Translations of Beowulf: Tolkien, Lehmann, and McCully
The Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf exists in numerous translations into prose and verse of various forms and styles. While some translators use accentual metre and alliteration to evoke the form of the original, few attempt to reproduce its metre and ...
Elliot Vale
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The etymology of 'rime' in the Ormulum
Standard reference works have regarded the word rime in the Middle English Ormulum as a French loanword meaning 'metre'. In this article, it will be argued that this interpretation of rime, as well as the accompanying etymology, are erroneous; it is ...
Nils-Lennart Johannesson
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Metrical Positions and their Linguistic Realisations in Old Germanic Metres: A Typological Overview
This paper provides a typological account of Old Germanic metre by investigating its parametric variations that largely determine the metrical identities of the Old English Beowulf, the Old Saxon Heliand, and Old Norse eddic poetry (composed in ...
Seiichi Suzuki
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