Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Symbols and Abbreviations
- 1 Bases of Old Saxon metre: an introduction
- 2 Metrical types and positions: levelling and reorganisation
- 3 Resolution and alliteration: repatterning and reconstitution
- 4 Hypermetric verses and lines: diversification and restructuring
- 5 The remaking of alliterative tradition: gradation and harmonisation
- Appendix 1 Foreign names
- Appendix 2 The metre of the Old Saxon Genesis
- References
- Index to the scansion of the Heliand
- Index to the scansion of the Old Saxon Genesis
- Index of authors
- Index of subjects
- Index of verses cited for discussion or exemplification
Index to the scansion of the Heliand
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Symbols and Abbreviations
- 1 Bases of Old Saxon metre: an introduction
- 2 Metrical types and positions: levelling and reorganisation
- 3 Resolution and alliteration: repatterning and reconstitution
- 4 Hypermetric verses and lines: diversification and restructuring
- 5 The remaking of alliterative tradition: gradation and harmonisation
- Appendix 1 Foreign names
- Appendix 2 The metre of the Old Saxon Genesis
- References
- Index to the scansion of the Heliand
- Index to the scansion of the Old Saxon Genesis
- Index of authors
- Index of subjects
- Index of verses cited for discussion or exemplification
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- The Metre of Old Saxon PoetryThe Remaking of Alliterative Tradition, pp. 370 - 477Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2004