"Svá sem naglar halda skipi saman": Attitudes to Alliteration in Poetry and Lyrics in Iceland
Alliteration is a feature of the poetic expression of many languages, but it was one of the most important ones within the ancient Germanic poetic tradition. While other Germanic languages no longer apply the poetic metrics that call for structural alliteration and stopped doing so during medieval t...
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Language: | English |
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2021
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1946/37940 |