[14] Cf. Sievers, Altgermanische Metrik, § 18. 2.
[15] Tacitus, Germania, cap. 2.
[16] Grein-Wülker, iii. 1, p. 156.
[17] The influence of the Latin system on Otfrid is clear from his own words, I. i. 21.
[18] For a review of recent metrical theories see Sievers, Altgermanische Metrik, 1893, pp. 2–17, and his article on metre in Paul’s Grundriss, ii. 2.
[19] Cf. Lachmann, ‘Über althochdeutsche Betonung und Verskunst,’ Schriften, ii. 358 ff., and ‘Über das Hildebrandslied’, ib., ii. 407 ff.
[20] Germania, iii, p. 7.
[21] Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum, i, p. 318, and de Carmine Wessofontano, 1861, p. 10.
[22]De Anglo-Saxonum arte metrica, 1871.
[23] ‘Grundzüge der altgermanischen Metrik,’ Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie, ii. 114 ff.