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	Encyclopedia topic: Alliterative verse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alliterative verse exists from the earliest attested monuments of the Germanic languages; extended passages of alliterative verse are attested in Old English, Old Norse (The extinct Germanic language of medieval Scandinavia and Iceland from about to 700 to 1350), Old High German (High German prior to 1200), and Old Saxon (Low German prior to 1200).
		Alliterative verse existed from the earliest monuments of Germanic literature to the present.
		Alliterative poetry is still practiced in Iceland (An island republic on the island of Iceland; became independent of Denmark in 1944) in an unbroken tradition since the settlement.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/alliterative_verse.htm (2138 words)

	Alliterative verse - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alliterative verse exists from the earliest attested monuments of the Germanic languages; extended passages of alliterative verse are attested in Old English, Old Norse, Old High German, and Old Saxon.
		In addition to two or three alliterations, the odd numbered lines had partial rhyme of consonants (which was called skothending) with dissimilar vowels, not necessarily at the beginning of the word; the even lines contained internal rhyme (aðalhending) in the syllables, not necessarily at the end of the word.
		The requirements of this verse form were so demanding that occasionally the text of the poems had to run parallel, with one thread of syntax running through the on-side of the half-lines, and another running through the off-side.
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	Encyclopedia: Alliterative verse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal stylistic device to unify lines of poetry, as opposed to other devices such as rhyme.
		Alliterative verse, in various forms, is found widely in the literary traditions of the early Germanic languages.
		In prosody, alliterative verse, German Stabreim, is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal stylistic device to unify lines of poetry, as opposed to other devices such as rhyme.
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		Alliterative verse, in prosody, is a name given to a number of closely related verse forms that are the common inheritance of the older Germanic languages.
		The use of alliterative verse continued into Middle English; William Langland's Piers Plowman is a major work in English that is written in alliterative verse; it was written between 1360 and 1399.
		A verse form close to that of Beowulf existed in the Old Norse Eddas; in Norse, it was called fornyrðislag, which means roughly "the old rules." The Norse poets tended to break up their verses into stanzas of from two to seven lines, rather than writing continuous verse after the Old English model.
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	Alliterative verse Article, Alliterativeverse Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In prosody, alliterative verse is any of a number of closelyrelated verse forms that are the common inheritance of the older Germanic languages.
		Alliterative verse exists from theearliest attested monuments of the Germanic languages; extended passages of alliterative verse are attested in Old English, Old Norse, Old HighGerman, and Old Saxon.
		The requirements of this verse form were so demanding that occasionally the text of the poems had to run parallel, with onethread of syntax running through the on-side of the half-lines, and another runningthrough the off-side.
	www.anoca.org /old/line/alliterative_verse.html (1718 words)

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		In prosody, alliterative verse is any of a number of closely related verse forms that are the common inheritance of the older
		Alliterative verse exists from the earliest attested monuments of the Germanic languages; extended passages of alliterative verse are attested in Old English, Old Norse,
		Middle-earth in Old English alliterative verse; these poems were found among his papers and published posthumously.
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