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Juha Kuokkala's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
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Nelson Goering deposited Atlakviða, reversal, and theories of Germanic alliterative metre in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe Norse poem Atlakviða shows an irregular metre which is difficult to classify. This makes it a useful test case for comparing the explanatory abilities of two major theoretical frameworks of Germanic alliterative verse: the positional theory and the word-foot theory. I argue that the word-foot theory is more successful, especially in deriving…[Read more]
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Nelson Goering deposited Atlakviða, reversal, and theories of Germanic alliterative metre in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe Norse poem Atlakviða shows an irregular metre which is difficult to classify. This makes it a useful test case for comparing the explanatory abilities of two major theoretical frameworks of Germanic alliterative verse: the positional theory and the word-foot theory. I argue that the word-foot theory is more successful, especially in deriving…[Read more]
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Nelson Goering's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
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Nelson Goering deposited Atlakviða, reversal, and theories of Germanic alliterative metre on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
The Norse poem Atlakviða shows an irregular metre which is difficult to classify. This makes it a useful test case for comparing the explanatory abilities of two major theoretical frameworks of Germanic alliterative verse: the positional theory and the word-foot theory. I argue that the word-foot theory is more successful, especially in deriving…[Read more]
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Juha Kuokkala's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
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Nelson Goering deposited Old Mercian: From Beowulf to Tolkien’s Rohan in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoAn overview of the dialect of Old English used by Tolkien to represent the language of Rohan. I argue that Tolkien chose the dialect represented by the early glossaries in Old Mercian, especially the eighth-century Corpus Glossary, as representatives of the kind of Old English he thought Beowulf was originally composed in.
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Nelson Goering deposited Old Mercian: From Beowulf to Tolkien’s Rohan in the group
Medieval English Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoAn overview of the dialect of Old English used by Tolkien to represent the language of Rohan. I argue that Tolkien chose the dialect represented by the early glossaries in Old Mercian, especially the eighth-century Corpus Glossary, as representatives of the kind of Old English he thought Beowulf was originally composed in.
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Nelson Goering deposited Old Mercian: From Beowulf to Tolkien’s Rohan on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
An overview of the dialect of Old English used by Tolkien to represent the language of Rohan. I argue that Tolkien chose the dialect represented by the early glossaries in Old Mercian, especially the eighth-century Corpus Glossary, as representatives of the kind of Old English he thought Beowulf was originally composed in.
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