Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviation
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The foot
- 3 The verse
- 4 Light feet and extrametrical words
- 5 Metrical archaisms
- 6 Alliteration
- 7 Metrical subordination within the foot
- 8 Resolution
- 9 Word order and stress within the clause
- 10 Old Saxon alliterative verse
- 11 Hildebrandslied
- 12 Conclusions
- Appendix: Rule summary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Verses specially discussed
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviation
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The foot
- 3 The verse
- 4 Light feet and extrametrical words
- 5 Metrical archaisms
- 6 Alliteration
- 7 Metrical subordination within the foot
- 8 Resolution
- 9 Word order and stress within the clause
- 10 Old Saxon alliterative verse
- 11 Hildebrandslied
- 12 Conclusions
- Appendix: Rule summary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Verses specially discussed
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Beowulf and Old Germanic Metre , pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998