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Seiichi Suzuki.
The Metre of Old Saxon Poetry: The Remaking of Alliterative Tradition.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2004.
ISBN 1843840146;
ISBN-13: 9781843840145.
Hardback, stitch bound; issued without a dustjacket.
160x240x44mm.
xx,505pp.
English.
Good condition, unused, but with a little warehouse damage: in particular, a small rip to the top of the gusset between the spine and front board; also some faint grubby marks to the page edges; text pages starting to yellow slightly.This item £30.00
[Publisher's price £50.00/$85.00]
979g.Uses the Heliand as a basis for study, with fairly frequent reference to Beowulf; an appendix discusses the metre of the Old Saxon Genesis.
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