This article assesses the authenticity of the three-position SxS verse type in Beowulf on the basis of its unambiguous incidence both in Beowulf and in a larger corpus of Old English poetry. The first part of this essay examines the metrical configuration of thirteen verses from Beowulf that have recently been identified as instances of the SxS pattern. In doing so, it demonstrates that nearly all of them furnish a standard four-position metrical structure. The second part discusses the empirical obstacles to accepting the formal legitimacy of the three-position SxS pattern in Old English verse, thereby reaffirming the validity of the stricture of traditional Sieversian metrics against verses consisting of less than four metrical positions....
Michael D. Cherniss (Professor of English at the University of Kansas) has written a number of books...
"In lines 607-61 of Beowulf, just before the battle between the hero and the monster Grendel, the Da...
24 pagesIncludes bibliographical references."“The Scop’s Repertoire” evinces remarkable longevity an...
Because of its faulty alliteration and irregular metrical configuration, the manuscript reading fela...
This paper provides a typological account of Old Germanic metre by investigating its parametric vari...
Neidorf (2017), The Transmission of Beowulf, synthesizes a variety of philological approaches to pro...
According to Sievers (1885, 1893), there are five metrical types of Germanic alliterative poetry bas...
According to Sievers (1885,1993), there are five metrical types of Germanic alliterative poetry base...
This thesis is a translation into modern English blank verse of the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf. The bu...
This study describes the verse design of Old English poetry in terms of modern phonological theory, ...
Received wisdom has it that the Beowulf poet put together his poem halfline by halfline ("verse" by ...
The metrical theory devised by Eduard Sievers and refined by A. J. Bliss forms the basis for most cu...
Twenty-six poems and fragments of poems are known to have survived the Anglo-Saxon period in more th...
TypescriptIncludes letters of approval from Chester Murray and H.M. Belden.This thesis compares Laya...
One of the most striking features of Anglo-Saxon alliterative poetry is the extraordinary richness o...
Michael D. Cherniss (Professor of English at the University of Kansas) has written a number of books...
"In lines 607-61 of Beowulf, just before the battle between the hero and the monster Grendel, the Da...
24 pagesIncludes bibliographical references."“The Scop’s Repertoire” evinces remarkable longevity an...
Because of its faulty alliteration and irregular metrical configuration, the manuscript reading fela...
This paper provides a typological account of Old Germanic metre by investigating its parametric vari...
Neidorf (2017), The Transmission of Beowulf, synthesizes a variety of philological approaches to pro...
According to Sievers (1885, 1893), there are five metrical types of Germanic alliterative poetry bas...
According to Sievers (1885,1993), there are five metrical types of Germanic alliterative poetry base...
This thesis is a translation into modern English blank verse of the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf. The bu...
This study describes the verse design of Old English poetry in terms of modern phonological theory, ...
Received wisdom has it that the Beowulf poet put together his poem halfline by halfline ("verse" by ...
The metrical theory devised by Eduard Sievers and refined by A. J. Bliss forms the basis for most cu...
Twenty-six poems and fragments of poems are known to have survived the Anglo-Saxon period in more th...
TypescriptIncludes letters of approval from Chester Murray and H.M. Belden.This thesis compares Laya...
One of the most striking features of Anglo-Saxon alliterative poetry is the extraordinary richness o...
Michael D. Cherniss (Professor of English at the University of Kansas) has written a number of books...
"In lines 607-61 of Beowulf, just before the battle between the hero and the monster Grendel, the Da...
24 pagesIncludes bibliographical references."“The Scop’s Repertoire” evinces remarkable longevity an...