[94] See Sievers, Altgerm. Metrik, § 97.

[95] For other subdivisions of rhyme see Sievers, Altgerm. Metrik, §§ 99–102, with the treatises on the subject, and Bk. II, sect. ii, ch. 1 of this work.

[96] Some less important examples, of which the metrical character is not quite clear, are mentioned by Luick, Paul’s Grundriss, ed. 2, II. ii. p. 144.

[97] In this passage and for the future we refrain from indicating the quantity of the vowels. The rhythmic accentuation is omitted, as being very uncertain in this passage.

[98] Viz. the so-called Proverbs of King Alfred (ed. by R. Morris, E.E.T.S., vol. XLIX), and Layamon’s Brut, ed. by Sir Frederic Madden, London, 1847, 2 vols.

[99] Paul’s Grundriss, ed. 2, II. ii. p. 10, and Altgermanische Metrik, p. 139.

[100] On the nature of these rhymes, cf. § 53 and the author’s paper, ‘Metrische Randglossen,’ in Englische Studien, x. 192 ff., chiefly pp. 199–200.

[101] In Paul’s Grundriss, ed. 2, II. ii. pp. 145–7.

[102] Cf. our remarks in Book I, Part II, on the Septenary Verse in combination with other metres.

[103] Cf. Wissmann, King Horn, pp. 59–62, and Metrik, i, pp. 189–90.