A History of English Versification

by J. Schipper

[74] Here n counts as a syllable, see Sievers, Angelsächsische Gram.,§ 141, and Altgerm. Metrik, § 79.

[75] See the statistics in Sievers, Paul-Braune’s Beiträge, x, p. 290.

[76] Sievers, Paul-Braune’s Beiträge, x. 241 and 294.

[77] Sievers, Altgerm. Metrik, § 85, 2, Anm. 3.

[78] Cf. Sievers, Altgermanische Metrik, § 15, 3 c, and § 116. 9.

[79] See Max Cremer, Metrische und sprachliche Untersuchungen der altenglischen Gedichte Andreas, Gūðlāc, Phoenix, &c., 1888, pp. 31 ff.; Sievers, Altgermanische Metrik, § 86; and chiefly Eduard Sokoll, ‘Zur Technik des altgermanischen Alliterationsverses,’ in Beiträge zur neueren Philologie, Vienna, 1902, pp. 351–65.

[80] But on this last expression see Sievers, Phonetik⁴, § 359.

[81] Edited by Grein in Anglia, ii. 141 ff.

[82] The Old Norse hofuðstafr, Germ. Hauptstab. The alliterations in the first hemistich are called in Old Norse stuðlar (sing. stuðill) ‘supporters’, Germ. Stollen or Stützen.

[83] Sievers, Altgerm. Metrik, § 20.