Alliteration in Old and Modern Icelandic Verse
by
Ragnar Ingi Adalsteinsson
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Traditions and Continuities - Alliteration in Old and Modern Icelandic Verse, is a lucid and authorative treatment of Old Icelandic alliterative metre, and of the subtle changes it underwent as the language evolved into later and modern Icelandic. It falls into four sections, beginning with an exhaustive...