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This book is a formal and functional study of the three distinct
meters of Old Norse eddic poetry, fornyrdislag, malahattr, and
ljodahattr. 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.
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new
perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes
state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across
theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new
insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary
perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for
cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in
its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards
linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as
well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for
a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the
ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes
monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes,
which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from
different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality
standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
The Old English Genesis is the sole illustrated Anglo-Saxon poem.
In full appreciation of this unique concurrent execution of
visualization and versification in a single manuscript, this
multidisciplinary work explores the pictorial (Vol. 1) and the
metrical (Vol. 2) organization from both synchronic-structural and
diachronic-comparative perspectives. Among the most significant
findings of each volume are: The first twenty-two images in the Old
English Genesis originated on the whole from the Touronian Bibles;
and the underlying classical Old English and Old Saxon meters were
interactively reshaped through mutual adaptation and recomposition
aimed at their firm integration into a synthesized Old English
Genesis. While each part is solidly embedded in the respective
scholarly tradition and pursues its own disciplinary concerns and
problematics, vigorous formal and cognitive reasoning and
theorizing run commonly through both. By way of mutual
corroboration and integration, the twin volumes eventually converge
on the hypothesis that the earliest portion of the extant Old
English Genesis (lines 1-966) derived from the corresponding
episodes of an illustrated Touronian Old Saxon Genesis in both
pictorial and metrical terms.
Six early films by Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa. The films
included comprise: 'Sanshuro Sugata' (1943), 'Sanshuro Sugata No 2'
(1945), 'The Most Beautiful' (1944), 'The Men Who Tread On the
Tiger's Tail' (1952), 'No Regrets For Our Youth' (1946) and 'One
Wonderful Sunday' (1947).
Extensive study of the entire corpus of Anglo-Saxon button
brooches, looking at their design, origins and development. The
Anglo-Saxon button brooch is a small disc brooch, about 2cm in
diameter and decorated with a single human face mask, found mainly
in southern England and occasionally in France; although many
examples survive, its origins anddevelopment are not fully
understood. This book offers a comprehensive study of its typology,
genealogy and chronology. It investigates formal and structural
design features, proposes a prototype- and statistics-based
typology, and examines the physical, conceptual and geographical
dimensions of the classification. Through an in-depth description
of class-internal distinctions and class-external similarities, the
author also explores the development of button brooches and
reconstructs their genealogy or derivational history. He then
situates the evolutionary trajectory of button brooches in a
temporal framework, by linking them to other brooch types such as
Jutlandic relief brooches and Saxon cast saucer brooches, and by
taking account of associated grave goods as appropriate. A
catalogue of the entire corpus of 209 button brooches and that of
related objects is provided in the appendices; there are also over
200 plates and other illustrations, enabling the details to be
carefully studied. SEIICHI SUZUKI is Professor of Old Germanic
Studies, Kansai Gaidai University, Japan.
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