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The sixth type of Germanic alliterative verse : the case of Old English Beowulf (Part 3) 00330225 鈴木, 保子 スズキ, ヤスコ Suzuki, Yasuko 関西外国語大学 Kansai Gaidai University open access metrical types Germanic alliterative verse Old English Beowulf decontraction 論文 ARTICLE According to the traditional metrical analysis, a basic unit of Germanic alliterative poetry consists of two stressed positions and two unstressed positions, i.e. S and W, respectively, and there are five possibilities of arranging these four positions, i.e. SWSW, WSWS, WSSW, SSWW, and SWWS (cf. Sievers 1885, 1893, Bliss 1962, 1967, Russom 1987, Cable 1991, Fulk 1992, Hutcheson 1995, Suzuki 1996 among others). This paper (Parts I-III) claims, based on the examination of Old English Beowulf, that there is the sixth type of Germanic alliterative verse, i.e. WWSS, in addition to Sievers's five metrical types. Following the introduction in Part I, section 2 in Parts I and II illustrated properties of early Germanic alliterative poetry and Sievers's (1885, 1893) metrical analysis as background information. Section 3 is devoted to the discussions of the sixth-type verses in Beowulf. Section 3.1 in Part II discussed the sixth-type verses with a disyllabic compound filling two lifts (e.g. Me pone waelraes `... me for the murderous onslaught'). Part III in the present volume discusses the sixth-type verses with a verse-final `contracted' vowel in section 3.2 (e.g. Swa sceal man don `as a man should do'), other possible sixth-type verses in section 3.3, and various problems associated with the proposed analysis in section 3.4. Part III also gives an appendix of a complete list of the sixth-type verses in Beowulf and, following the references, a table of contents of the previous two parts. 関西外国語大学・関西外国語大学短期大学部 Kansai Gaidai University 2007-09 eng departmental bulletin paper VoR https://doi.org/10.18956/00006223 https://kansaigaidai.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/6236 10.18956/00006223 AN00046756 0388-1067 研究論集 Journal of Inquiry and Research 86 39 56 https://kansaigaidai.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/6236/files/r086_03.pdf application/pdf 630.7 kB 2016-09-05