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The Meters of Old Norse Eddic Poetry: Common Germanic Inheritance and North Germanic In…

by Suzuki, Seiichi

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Biographical note: Seiichi Suzuki, Kansai Gaidai University, Hirakata, Japan. A formal and functional study of the three meters of Old Norse eddic poetry, fornyrðislag, málaháttr, and ljóðaháttr, this book provides their systematic account (synchronic, diachronic, and from a co…

Scholars have long analyzed Biblical Hebrew poetry on a number of levels, yet consonance has received less attention than most other literary devices. Moreover, even when consonance has been studied, scholars have usually focused on consonance only at the level of the line or th…