Prosody in Medieval English and Norse

Nelson Goering grew up in the Ocooch 'Mountains' of southwestern Wisconsin, and has a DPhil from the University of Oxford. He has held a British Academy funded postdoctoral fellowship on Norse Influence on Middle English Prosody, in the course of which he published a number of articles on early Germanic foot structure and metrics. He is currently at Ghent University, working on his FWO-funded research project Little Words in Early Germanic. This project combines evidence from metrics, orthography, and sound change to better understand the synchronic and diachronic dimensions of phonological clitic developments in the early Germanic languages.

• List of TablesAcknowledgementsAbbreviations and Symbols1: Introduction: Bones and the Beast2: The Toolkit: Syllables, Moras, Feet, and Words3: Rum, Ram, Ruf: The Prosody of Alliterative Verse4: The Hēafudu-problem: Early Old English Foot Structure5: The Sandwich Rule: Kaluza's Law and Resolution in Beowulf6: Feet in Early Middle English: Ie-Reduction7: Metrical Resolution in Early Middle English8: Later Middle English Prosody9: The Norse Syllable Controversy10: Vowel Loss in Runic Inscriptions11: Resolution in Fornyrðislag12: The Constrained Position: Non-resolution and Craigie's Law13: Conclusion: Bimoraism in Medieval English and NorseAppendicesBibliographyNote on AlphabetisationIndex of VersesIndex of WordsIndex of Subjects

Goering's ambitious book effectively spans a broad chronological, geographic, topical, and poetic range in its pursuit of the history of the bimoraic trochee in early English and Scandinavian linguistics and metrics.