The author argues that the formal art of the Old English epic Beowulf is shaped and determined by the poetic language which the poet inherited from the oral, tr... » 

The author argues that the formal art of the Old English epic Beowulf is shaped and determined by the poetic language which the poet inherited from the oral, traditional culture of Anglo-Saxon England. He provides a complete index of scansion according to the rules of his revised views of metre. «