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Nelson Goering deposited The Terrible Bite of Fire: Metre, Sound Change, and Emendation in Beowulf 1122 in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoLine 1122 of Beowulf represents a problem where the findings of metrics, historical phonology, and the reading of the manuscript are in conflict with one another. I revive and adapt Tolkien’s proposal to emend lāðbite līċes līġ ealle forswealg to lāðbite līġes līċ eall forswealg “the cruel bite of fire swallowed up the entire bodies”. This…[Read more]
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Nelson Goering deposited The Terrible Bite of Fire: Metre, Sound Change, and Emendation in Beowulf 1122 in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoLine 1122 of Beowulf represents a problem where the findings of metrics, historical phonology, and the reading of the manuscript are in conflict with one another. I revive and adapt Tolkien’s proposal to emend lāðbite līċes līġ ealle forswealg to lāðbite līġes līċ eall forswealg “the cruel bite of fire swallowed up the entire bodies”. This…[Read more]
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Nelson Goering deposited The Terrible Bite of Fire: Metre, Sound Change, and Emendation in Beowulf 1122 on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month ago
Line 1122 of Beowulf represents a problem where the findings of metrics, historical phonology, and the reading of the manuscript are in conflict with one another. I revive and adapt Tolkien’s proposal to emend lāðbite līċes līġ ealle forswealg to lāðbite līġes līċ eall forswealg “the cruel bite of fire swallowed up the entire bodies”. This…[Read more]
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Nelson Goering deposited Old Saxon unmet, Genesis B 313b ungemet, and unmetrical scribal forms in Germanic alliterative verse in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThe adverb ungemete, unigmetes in Beowulf and elsewhere in Old English verse creates significant metrical problems. I revive and expand the proposal of Fulk (1992) to read this as *unmet. This restoration receives support from metrics and from the comparison with Old Saxon unmet of the same meaning, and the alteration to ungemet(e), etc., in the…[Read more]
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Nelson Goering deposited Old Saxon unmet, Genesis B 313b ungemet, and unmetrical scribal forms in Germanic alliterative verse on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month ago
The adverb ungemete, unigmetes in Beowulf and elsewhere in Old English verse creates significant metrical problems. I revive and expand the proposal of Fulk (1992) to read this as *unmet. This restoration receives support from metrics and from the comparison with Old Saxon unmet of the same meaning, and the alteration to ungemet(e), etc., in the…[Read more]
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Nelson Goering deposited Eduard Sievers’ Altgermanisch Metrik 125 years on in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoEduard Sievers’ Altgermanische Metrik remains a foundational work for Germanic metrical research, even 125 years after its publication in 1893. His impact on the field may be roughly divided into three broad approaches: 1) the impulse for the typological categorization and labelling of verses; 2) the four-position principle as the basis for a…[Read more]
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Nelson Goering deposited Eduard Sievers’ Altgermanisch Metrik 125 years on on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months ago
Eduard Sievers’ Altgermanische Metrik remains a foundational work for Germanic metrical research, even 125 years after its publication in 1893. His impact on the field may be roughly divided into three broad approaches: 1) the impulse for the typological categorization and labelling of verses; 2) the four-position principle as the basis for a…[Read more]
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Ronald Kyrmse deposited “Doworst” by J.R.R. Tolkien: A Disappeared Poem in the group
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe whereabouts of the manuscript of “Doworst” by Tolkien are unknown. This paper reproduces what is known of the text and comments on its history.
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Ronald Kyrmse deposited “Doworst” de J.R.R. Tolkien: Um Poema Desaparecido in the group
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoO paradeiro do manuscrito de “Doworst” por Tolkien é desconhecido. Este artigo reproduz o que se conhece do texto e comenta sobre sua história.
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Ronald Kyrmse deposited Concordance among the Calendars of Middle-earth – Endóreva Astanótië in the group
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe prime source of information about Middle-earth calendars is Appendix D to Prof. J. R. R. Tolkien’s translation of the Red Book of Westmarch. Thence have these quotations been extracted, in order to achieve a concordance among our reckoning of months and days on the one hand, and the five systems known to have been employed by the Eldar, the H…[Read more]
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Ronald Kyrmse deposited Concordância entre os Calendários da Terra-média – Endóreva Astanótië in the group
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoA principal fonte de informações sobre os calendários da Terra-Média é o Apêndice D da tradução do Livro Vermelho do Marco Ocidental feita pelo Prof. J.R.R. Tolkien. Foi dali que se extraíram estas citações, para obter uma concordância entre nossa contagem dos meses e dias por um lado, e por outro lado os cinco sistemas que se sabe terem sido…[Read more]
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Ronald Kyrmse deposited The Location of Mount Dolmed on Maps from the First and Third Ages in the group
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoMount Dolmed (from Sindarin dol + med “wet head”) rose in the First Age above an important pass through the Blue Mountains, between Beleriand and Eriador.
The great dwarven cities of Gabilgathol [Nogrod in Sindarin] and Tumunzahar [Belegost] were built in its vicinity, to the southeast and northeast respectively.
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Ronald Kyrmse deposited Elvish Handwriting Styles in the group
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoSome examples from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Elvish handwriting
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Ronald Kyrmse deposited Lendo Tolkien em livros publicados no Brasil in the group
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoLivros de J.R.R. Tolkien publicados no Brasil até agosto de 2020
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Ronald Kyrmse deposited Gondolinic Runes in the group
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThese runes are known to us only from a slip of paper written by J. R. R. Tolkien. The analysis is in English and Portuguese.
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Ronald Kyrmse deposited J.R.R. Tolkien Writing Tengwar in the group
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoAn analysis of Tolkien’s writing dynamics based on a video of him writing in tengwar
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I saw this video at the Bibliotheque National de France exhibition. My eye was caught by his apology for a mistake. “Something I just made up” can’t have a mistake in it — he thought of the Tengwar as a real writing system.
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Ronald Kyrmse deposited Tolkien’s Tengwar Text of The Lay of Leithian in the group
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoA partial analysis of the Lay written by JRRT in Elvish characters
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Ronald Kyrmse deposited Concordância entre os Calendários da Terra-média – Endóreva Astanótië on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months ago
A principal fonte de informações sobre os calendários da Terra-Média é o Apêndice D da tradução do Livro Vermelho do Marco Ocidental feita pelo Prof. J.R.R. Tolkien. Foi dali que se extraíram estas citações, para obter uma concordância entre nossa contagem dos meses e dias por um lado, e por outro lado os cinco sistemas que se sabe terem sido…[Read more]
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