Re: USAGE: syllables

Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> > In that light, it's interesting that in OE and ON (but not Old Saxon)
> > alliterative verse, each of these alliterated only with itself and not
> > with other words in s-.
>
> Frikken Saxon deviants! ;-)
"Decadents" may perhaps be the correct word.  Assuming that the OE/ON
state of things is older, that is.  We also find a lot more empty
unstressed syllables than in ON or OS: nothing like the Sievers line
types (A, B, etc.) is visible.  Overall the Hildebrandslied gives the
impression of a convention that is on the verge of falling apart.

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