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Secondhand book for saleSeiichi Suzuki.
The Metre of Old Saxon Poetry: The Remaking of Alliterative Tradition.
Published Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2004.
ISBN 1843840146;
ISBN-13: 9781843840145.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; issued without a dustjacket.
Size: 160x240x44mm.
Page count: xx,505pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy is unused, but with a bit of warehouse damage: in particular, a small rip at the top of the gusset between the spine and front board; some scuffs and grubby marks on the page edges; text pages starting to yellow with age
This item £30.00
P&P inc. within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)[
Publisher’s price £50.00/$85.00]
Weight without packaging: 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.
See also | Alliterative verse |
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