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Traditions and Continuities: Alliteration in Old and Modern Icelandic Verse
Traditions and Continuities - Alliteration in Old and Modern Icelandic Verse, is a lucid and authorative treatment of Old Icelandic alliterative metre, and of the subtle changes it underwent as the language evolved into later and modern Icelandic. It falls into four sections, beginning with an exhaustive account of the mechanics of alliteration and their development up until the present; a review of the development of research into the subject; the author's own research into the nature of alliterative verse, with special attention to complex phenomena such as vowel alliteration, s-clusters an hv-alliteration; and final section summarizing the main conclusions.

Written by a scholar and poet, this is an essential handbook for the English-speaking research student in the subject.
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Traditions and Continuities: Alliteration in Old and Modern Icelandic Verse
Traditions and Continuities - Alliteration in Old and Modern Icelandic Verse, is a lucid and authorative treatment of Old Icelandic alliterative metre, and of the subtle changes it underwent as the language evolved into later and modern Icelandic. It falls into four sections, beginning with an exhaustive account of the mechanics of alliteration and their development up until the present; a review of the development of research into the subject; the author's own research into the nature of alliterative verse, with special attention to complex phenomena such as vowel alliteration, s-clusters an hv-alliteration; and final section summarizing the main conclusions.

Written by a scholar and poet, this is an essential handbook for the English-speaking research student in the subject.
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Traditions and Continuities: Alliteration in Old and Modern Icelandic Verse

Traditions and Continuities: Alliteration in Old and Modern Icelandic Verse

by Ragnar Ingi Adalsteinsson
Traditions and Continuities: Alliteration in Old and Modern Icelandic Verse
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Traditions and Continuities: Alliteration in Old and Modern Icelandic Verse

by Ragnar Ingi Adalsteinsson

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Traditions and Continuities - Alliteration in Old and Modern Icelandic Verse, is a lucid and authorative treatment of Old Icelandic alliterative metre, and of the subtle changes it underwent as the language evolved into later and modern Icelandic. It falls into four sections, beginning with an exhaustive account of the mechanics of alliteration and their development up until the present; a review of the development of research into the subject; the author's own research into the nature of alliterative verse, with special attention to complex phenomena such as vowel alliteration, s-clusters an hv-alliteration; and final section summarizing the main conclusions.

Written by a scholar and poet, this is an essential handbook for the English-speaking research student in the subject.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789935230454
Publisher: University of Iceland Press
Publication date: 06/19/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 296
File size: 7 MB

About the Author

Dr. Ragnar Ingi Adalsteinsson is the author of a number of volumes of poetry, textbooks on Icelandic metre for schools and universities, and academic articles. He is editor of Stuðlaberg, a twice-yerlay journal of Icelandic traditional poetry and a lecturer at the University of Iceland.
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