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Beowulf and Old Germanic Metre

Beowulf and Old Germanic Metre

Russom, Geoffrey

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, Book 23

Literary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0521593409
ISBN13: 9780521593403
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 5 1998
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This is a clear and accessible account of early Germanic alliterative verse that explains how such verse was treated by the Beowulf poet. There are differences of poetic style between Beowulf and the otherwise similar verse of ancient Scandinavia and continental Europe. Such distinctions have intrigued scholars for over a century, but Russom is the first to provide a systematic explanation of Old English, Old Norse, Old Saxon and Old High German alliterative meters. Russom's results should interest scholars of Old English and related Germanic languages, as well as linguists and those concerned with poetic meter.

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