Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables viii
4. Preface xv
5. Symbols and Abbreviations xviii
6. 1 Bases of Old Saxon metre: an introduction 1
7. 2 Metrical types and positions: levelling and reorganisation 29
8. 3 Resolution and alliteration: repatterning and reconstitution 194
9. 4 Hypermetric verses and lines: diversification and restructuring 295
10. 5 The remaking of alliterative tradition: gradation and harmonisation 330
11. Appendix 1. Foreign names 345
12. Appendix 2. The metre of the Old Saxon Genesis 353
13. References 366
14. Index to the scansion of the Heliand 370
15. Index to the scansion of the Old Saxon Genesis 478
16. Index of authors 485
17. Index of subjects 487
18. Index of verses cited for discussion or exemplification 495