Nelson Goering
@ahannahim.bsky.social
Itinerant philologist, postdoc University of Oslo, teacher at Signum University. Author of Prosody in Medieval English and Norse (open-access PDF from OUP!).
My article on Metre and Clitics in Old English and Old Saxon has just appeared in Glossa. Basically an attempt to use metre to get a better handle on the prosody of things like prepositions and the development of articles in those languages. Really enjoyed working with Glossa -- a model journal!
Metre and clitics in Old English and Old Saxon
This article attempts to extract prosodic information from Germanic (here, Old English and Old Saxon) alliterative poetry by integrating multiple theoretical frameworks. The metrical theories of Sieve...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
My article on Metre and Clitics in Old English and Old Saxon has just appeared in Glossa. Basically an attempt to use metre to get a better handle on the prosody of things like prepositions and the development of articles in those languages. Really enjoyed working with Glossa -- a model journal!
Hwæt ic þone wulf ge·seah, and ðā weosolan ēac,
and mid him ðone frēcnan fox, fēðum swiftne,
wīs-cræftig dēor, þe mid Wealhum bið
Regnheard nemned, rēafiend henna,
lācan lustum, līð-fatu drincan.
and mid him ðone frēcnan fox, fēðum swiftne,
wīs-cræftig dēor, þe mid Wealhum bið
Regnheard nemned, rēafiend henna,
lācan lustum, līð-fatu drincan.
August 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Hwæt ic þone wulf ge·seah, and ðā weosolan ēac,
and mid him ðone frēcnan fox, fēðum swiftne,
wīs-cræftig dēor, þe mid Wealhum bið
Regnheard nemned, rēafiend henna,
lācan lustum, līð-fatu drincan.
and mid him ðone frēcnan fox, fēðum swiftne,
wīs-cræftig dēor, þe mid Wealhum bið
Regnheard nemned, rēafiend henna,
lācan lustum, līð-fatu drincan.
This is in many ways a model edition of Beowulf. Intended to provide a sound edition incorporating Sievers' discoveries about the poem's metre, it is sensibly edited, with an economical glossary, and compact but rich notes -- plus four other short Old English poems and the German Hildebrandslied.
June 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This is in many ways a model edition of Beowulf. Intended to provide a sound edition incorporating Sievers' discoveries about the poem's metre, it is sensibly edited, with an economical glossary, and compact but rich notes -- plus four other short Old English poems and the German Hildebrandslied.
Reposted by Nelson Goering
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February 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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In case there are people on here who really like bloody and gruesome Norse poetry, I thought maybe I could start my time here with a translation of the Atlakviða (The Lay of Atli) I made for students. I'll post the stanzas in small batches, and give some context in a following thread. #Atli
December 17, 2023 at 2:46 PM
In case there are people on here who really like bloody and gruesome Norse poetry, I thought maybe I could start my time here with a translation of the Atlakviða (The Lay of Atli) I made for students. I'll post the stanzas in small batches, and give some context in a following thread. #Atli