Nochmals zur Metrizität der älteren Runeninschriften
The author presents a minimalist approach
to early runic metrics by first taking the position of the Advocatus
Diaboli. This means that metrical criteria of the older runic inscriptions
should speak for themselves without being directly derived from or equated
with later language stages and their elaborated metrical systems. The
leitmotif of this analysis is the fusion and interaction of language,
sentence rhythm and alliterative metrics. Not entirely unexpectedly, the
Germanic long line emerges as the basic unit of Ancient Nordic metrics,
since it can be relatively reliably verified in a small group of older runic
inscriptions. This unit is identified as the proto-long
line of Northwest Germanic metrics. This examination excludes
inscriptions of the transitional period and the Viking Age. Thus, the focus
is on the metricity of the unsyncopated, linguistically archaic runic
inscriptions of the older period prior to AD 500/550. This has the advantage
of systematically excluding syncopated or partially syncopated inscriptions
such as the Eggja stone and the Blekinge inscriptions. Due to their
linguistic status, these inscriptions will have to be subjected to a
separate study.
Article outline
- 1.Zur Methode
- 2.Die Eliminierungsmethode
- 3.Zusatzargumente zur Metrizität
- 4.Zwischenresumee zur Langzeile in der altgermanischen Metrik
- 5.Formelhaftigkeit und Metrizität: Die ek erilaʀ-Mikroformel
- 6.Alliterierende Formeln als „slot filler“
- 7.Primitive Formen des Ljóðaháttr im Urnordischen?
- 8.Auswertung
- 9.Schluss
- Author queries
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Danksagung
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Hinweise
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Literatur
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Article language: German