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Suzuki Seiichi |
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Titolo |
The meters of old Norse eddic poetry : common Germanic inheritance and north Germanic innovation / / Seiichi Suzuki |
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Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1142 p.) |
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Collana |
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Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, , 1866-7678 ; ; Band 86 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Eddas - History and criticism |
Old Norse poetry - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of tables -- Abbreviations and symbols -- 1. Introduction -- Part I. Fornyrðislag -- Introduction -- 2. Verse types and their realizations -- 3. Anacrusis and catalexis -- 4. Resolution -- 5. The cadence -- 6. Alliteration -- 7. The stanza -- Part II. Málaháttr -- Introduction -- 8. The prototype of málaháttr: Atlamál in groenlenzco -- 9. A peripheral variant of fornyrðislag/málaháttr 1: Atlaqviða in grœnlenzca -- 10. A peripheral variant of fornyrðislag/málaháttr 2: Hamðismál -- 11. A peripheral variant of fornyrðislag/málaháttr 3: Hárbarðzlióð -- Part III. Ljóðaháttr -- Introduction -- 12. The a-verse and the b-verse -- 13. The c-verse -- 14. The stanza -- 15. Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Catalogue of verse types -- Appendix 2: Dróttkvætt and the eddic meters -- References -- Index of scansion -- Index of authors -- Index of subjects -- Index of verses |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book is a formal and functional study of the three distinct meters of Old Norse eddic poetry, fornyrðislag, málaháttr, and ljóðaháttr. It provides a systematic account of these archaic meters, both synchronic and diachronic, and from a comparative Germanic perspective; particularly concerned with Norse innovations in metrical practice, Suzuki explores how and why the three meters were shaped in West Scandinavia through divergent reorganization of the Common Germanic |
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metrical system. The book constitutes the first comprehensive work on the meters of Old Norse eddic poetry in a single coherent framework; with thorough data presentation, detailed philological analysis, and sophisticated linguistic explanation, the book will be of enormous interest to Old Germanic philologists/linguists, medievalists, as well as metrists of all persuasions. A strong methodological advantage of this work is the extensive use of inferential statistical techniques for giving empirical support to specific analyses and claims being adduced. Another strength is a cognitive dimension, a (re)construction of a prototype-based model of the metrical system and its overall characterization as an integral part of the poetic knowledge that governed eddic poets' verse-making technique in general. |
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