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

Seiichi Suzuki

Published by De Gruyter 2014

The Meters of Old Norse Eddic Poetry

Common Germanic Inheritance and North Germanic Innovation

Seiichi Suzuki

Volume 86 in the series Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110336771

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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 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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Seiichi Suzuki, Kansai Gaidai University, Hirakata, Japan.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
List of tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xxiii
Abbreviations and symbols Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xliii
1. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Fornyrðislag
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2. Verse types and their realizations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
3. Anacrusis and catalexis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
4. Resolution Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
5. The cadence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
6. Alliteration Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
7. The stanza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
Part II. Málaháttr
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	425
8. The prototype of málaháttr: Atlamál in groenlenzco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	429
9. A peripheral variant of fornyrðislag/málaháttr 1: Atlaqviða in grœnlenzca Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	499
10. A peripheral variant of fornyrðislag/málaháttr 2: Hamðismál Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	525
11. A peripheral variant of fornyrðislag/málaháttr 3: Hárbarðzlióð Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	541
Part III. Ljóðaháttr
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	573
12. The a-verse and the b-verse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	577
13. The c-verse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	665
14. The stanza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	761
15. Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	773
Appendix 1: Catalogue of verse types Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	799
Appendix 2: Dróttkvætt and the eddic meters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	821
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	825
Index of scansion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	831
Index of authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1059
Index of subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1061
Index of verses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1077

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, institutes, libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 45
- Main content: 1096
Keywords: Alliteration; Old Germanic; Poetic Edda; Verse

eBook

Published: December 12, 2013
ISBN: 9783110336771

Hardcover

Published: December 11, 2013
ISBN: 9783110335002