Knowledge Commons | Nelson Goering | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/ngoering/activity/ Activity feed for Nelson Goering. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:20:57 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 69751a9d7dc3245e448070f0ef0f3407 Nelson Goering's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1919006/ Wed, 28 May 2025 08:11:08 -0400 0 6c2c346a79731dd15e89933bfdf71bf4 Nelson Goering deposited Atlakviða, reversal, and theories of Germanic alliterative metre in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861919/ Tue, 17 Oct 2023 03:00:24 -0400 The Norse poem Atlakviða shows an irregular metre which is difficult to classify. This makes it a useful test case for comparing the explanatory abilities of two major theoretical frameworks of Germanic alliterative verse: the positional theory and the word-foot theory. I argue that the word-foot theory is more successful, especially in deriving…[Read more]

]]> 0 86c2412af00022f4d9bf845c1188c2da Nelson Goering deposited Atlakviða, reversal, and theories of Germanic alliterative metre in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861918/ Tue, 17 Oct 2023 03:00:02 -0400 The Norse poem Atlakviða shows an irregular metre which is difficult to classify. This makes it a useful test case for comparing the explanatory abilities of two major theoretical frameworks of Germanic alliterative verse: the positional theory and the word-foot theory. I argue that the word-foot theory is more successful, especially in deriving…[Read more]

]]> 0 4a8dc3b849bfaa2e2411270c9c629f70 Nelson Goering's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861833/ Mon, 16 Oct 2023 08:44:22 -0400 0 46864417ea9095fa6a11b2b843263316 Nelson Goering deposited Atlakviða, reversal, and theories of Germanic alliterative metre https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861830/ Mon, 16 Oct 2023 06:59:59 -0400 The Norse poem Atlakviða shows an irregular metre which is difficult to classify. This makes it a useful test case for comparing the explanatory abilities of two major theoretical frameworks of Germanic alliterative verse: the positional theory and the word-foot theory. I argue that the word-foot theory is more successful, especially in deriving…[Read more]

]]> 0 895abc20b59170346371cd32223e52d6 Nelson Goering created the group Old Norse Language and Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861828/ Mon, 16 Oct 2023 06:51:32 -0400 0 691b17289b5f036b83c25b1c833491e6 Nelson Goering created the site Old Norse Language and Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861826/ Mon, 16 Oct 2023 06:27:12 -0400 0 54fe31f62175313648f0b184d0f71817 Nelson Goering deposited Old Mercian: From Beowulf to Tolkien’s Rohan in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1860319/ Mon, 02 Oct 2023 03:00:05 -0400 An overview of the dialect of Old English used by Tolkien to represent the language of Rohan. I argue that Tolkien chose the dialect represented by the early glossaries in Old Mercian, especially the eighth-century Corpus Glossary, as representatives of the kind of Old English he thought Beowulf was originally composed in.

]]> 0 f8a7e2a3a8f54dd301d814dbfe0c1a95 Nelson Goering deposited Old Mercian: From Beowulf to Tolkien’s Rohan in the group Medieval English Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1860318/ Mon, 02 Oct 2023 03:00:04 -0400 An overview of the dialect of Old English used by Tolkien to represent the language of Rohan. I argue that Tolkien chose the dialect represented by the early glossaries in Old Mercian, especially the eighth-century Corpus Glossary, as representatives of the kind of Old English he thought Beowulf was originally composed in.

]]> 0 b522eaf562d4ba2dfcdd8e40b0f8e9d6 Nelson Goering deposited Old Mercian: From Beowulf to Tolkien’s Rohan https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1860275/ Sun, 01 Oct 2023 06:26:48 -0400 An overview of the dialect of Old English used by Tolkien to represent the language of Rohan. I argue that Tolkien chose the dialect represented by the early glossaries in Old Mercian, especially the eighth-century Corpus Glossary, as representatives of the kind of Old English he thought Beowulf was originally composed in.

]]> 0 761f63d3e110d6bfcfa8213d90ac12a3 Nelson Goering's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1858352/ Wed, 13 Sep 2023 10:09:49 -0400 0 035d16c9cfcf2b557ee588e7b115ed50 Nelson Goering deposited Review of Philip A. Shaw, Names and Naming in “Beowulf”: Studies in Heroic Narrative Tradition. https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1837139/ Mon, 13 Mar 2023 10:22:41 -0400 Book reviewed: Philip A. Shaw, Names and Naming in “Beowulf”: Studies in Heroic Narrative Tradition. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Pp. xii, 220; color and black-and-white figures. $115. ISBN: 978-1-3501-4576-4.

]]> 0 17ac71930e0004af6b791211f5b09c15 Nelson Goering deposited Metre in Old Saxon and Old High German in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1836310/ Sat, 04 Mar 2023 02:23:42 -0500 Schematic (bullet-point) overview of Old Saxon and Old High German metre, with a particular emphasis on alliterative verse. My goal is to sketch out the main features of the metre, especially in comparison with Old English, rather than to delve into theoretical fundamentals (though an appendix touching on that topic is included). I also append a…[Read more]

]]> 0 ffc55b40eadf9d5aa9b93a3bd873a635 Nelson Goering deposited Metre in Old Saxon and Old High German in the group Medieval English Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1836309/ Sat, 04 Mar 2023 02:23:41 -0500 Schematic (bullet-point) overview of Old Saxon and Old High German metre, with a particular emphasis on alliterative verse. My goal is to sketch out the main features of the metre, especially in comparison with Old English, rather than to delve into theoretical fundamentals (though an appendix touching on that topic is included). I also append a…[Read more]

]]> 0 0975e5ad915830e1c60b992f858499fa Nelson Goering deposited Old English Metre in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1836308/ Sat, 04 Mar 2023 02:23:39 -0500 An overview of the main features of Old English metre, including a comparison of theories for the basic operation of the metrical system.

]]> 0 50e13077ce614649bbd0c4ad90a60a31 Nelson Goering deposited Metre in Old Saxon and Old High German https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1836051/ Fri, 03 Mar 2023 15:58:39 -0500 Schematic (bullet-point) overview of Old Saxon and Old High German metre, with a particular emphasis on alliterative verse. My goal is to sketch out the main features of the metre, especially in comparison with Old English, rather than to delve into theoretical fundamentals (though an appendix touching on that topic is included). I also append a…[Read more]

]]> 0 3ce2fc6f5a03664b55814076186aa745 Nelson Goering deposited Old English Metre https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1836047/ Fri, 03 Mar 2023 15:52:45 -0500 An overview of the main features of Old English metre, including a comparison of theories for the basic operation of the metrical system.

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]]> 0 60ea8f7db21f0e4f37b7a6ac91f2cd6c Nelson Goering deposited Phonological Evidence for Resolution in Early Middle English in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1790480/ Mon, 15 Aug 2022 02:24:02 -0400 A review of evidence for foot structure from early Middle English.

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]]> 0 f41eea30ea9b6010e457eaf7314ea4b7 Nelson Goering deposited Review of Mailhammer & Vennemann (2019): The Carthaginian North: Semitic Influence on Early Germanic: A Linguistic and Cultural Study in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1747894/ Fri, 30 Jul 2021 02:24:59 -0400 Journal of Historical Linguistics, Volume 11, Issue 2, 357 - 366.

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]]> 0 8a1a189d23b7bcc4f67450f739550ac2 Nelson Goering deposited Kaluza's Law and Secondary Stress (final version) in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1747512/ Sun, 25 Jul 2021 02:24:06 -0400 Kaluza’s law is a proposed restriction in the metre of Beowulf against the resolution of light-heavy sequences: words like cyning ‘king’ can only resolve and count as the equivalent of a single heavy syllable under more restricted circumstances than can words such as wudu ‘wood’. There has been debate about how to define these ‘restrict…[Read more]

]]> 0 15496015e559bcaf23da563ccc2b8495 Nelson Goering deposited Kaluza's Law and Secondary Stress (final version) in the group Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1747511/ Sun, 25 Jul 2021 02:23:38 -0400 Kaluza’s law is a proposed restriction in the metre of Beowulf against the resolution of light-heavy sequences: words like cyning ‘king’ can only resolve and count as the equivalent of a single heavy syllable under more restricted circumstances than can words such as wudu ‘wood’. There has been debate about how to define these ‘restrict…[Read more]

]]> 0 5c99432c05466202ada7d77abc10edeb Nelson Goering deposited Kaluza's Law and Secondary Stress (final version) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1747491/ Sat, 24 Jul 2021 09:40:10 -0400 Kaluza’s law is a proposed restriction in the metre of Beowulf against the resolution of light-heavy sequences: words like cyning ‘king’ can only resolve and count as the equivalent of a single heavy syllable under more restricted circumstances than can words such as wudu ‘wood’. There has been debate about how to define these ‘restrict…[Read more]

]]> 0 724a25345ffbb6af4388e3dbab3ab175 Nelson Goering deposited Kaluza's Law and Secondary Stress in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738658/ Wed, 19 May 2021 02:24:05 -0400 Kaluza’s law is a proposed restriction in the metre of Beowulf against the resolution of light-heavy sequences: words like cyning ‘king’ can only resolve and count as the equivalent of a single heavy syllable under more restricted circumstances than can words such as wudu ‘wood’. There has been debate about how to define these ‘restricted…[Read more]

]]> 0 0489623dbd56c31d667d61c2e3aeee5e Nelson Goering deposited Kaluza's Law and Secondary Stress in the group Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738657/ Wed, 19 May 2021 02:23:39 -0400 Kaluza’s law is a proposed restriction in the metre of Beowulf against the resolution of light-heavy sequences: words like cyning ‘king’ can only resolve and count as the equivalent of a single heavy syllable under more restricted circumstances than can words such as wudu ‘wood’. There has been debate about how to define these ‘restricted…[Read more]

]]> 0 43082ee7c2a2883a84be324830483206 Nelson Goering deposited Kaluza's Law and Secondary Stress https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738600/ Tue, 18 May 2021 15:03:30 -0400 Kaluza’s law is a proposed restriction in the metre of Beowulf against the resolution of light-heavy sequences: words like cyning ‘king’ can only resolve and count as the equivalent of a single heavy syllable under more restricted circumstances than can words such as wudu ‘wood’. There has been debate about how to define these ‘restricted…[Read more]

]]> 0 c5a104cba630083418881e811f35c9dc Nelson Goering deposited Review: A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages (2018), by R.D. Fulk in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1725235/ Thu, 28 Jan 2021 02:24:05 -0500 Review of A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages by R. D. Fulk, 2018.

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]]> 0 6cd70b16f66ba38e6b9e8ff2ba97575b Nelson Goering deposited The Terrible Bite of Fire: Metre, Sound Change, and Emendation in Beowulf 1122 in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1720302/ Fri, 18 Dec 2020 02:24:04 -0500 Line 1122 of Beowulf represents a problem where the findings of metrics, historical phonology, and the reading of the manuscript are in conflict with one another. I revive and adapt Tolkien's proposal to emend lāðbite līċes līġ ealle forswealg to lāðbite līġes līċ eall forswealg “the cruel bite of fire swallowed up the entire bodies”. This…[Read more]

]]> 0 aebeef30beda348d0e77dbd9ea00a44b Nelson Goering deposited The Terrible Bite of Fire: Metre, Sound Change, and Emendation in Beowulf 1122 in the group Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1720301/ Fri, 18 Dec 2020 02:23:38 -0500 Line 1122 of Beowulf represents a problem where the findings of metrics, historical phonology, and the reading of the manuscript are in conflict with one another. I revive and adapt Tolkien's proposal to emend lāðbite līċes līġ ealle forswealg to lāðbite līġes līċ eall forswealg “the cruel bite of fire swallowed up the entire bodies”. This…[Read more]

]]> 0 7c0769a51decd948382a6a295d1c19e7 Nelson Goering deposited The Terrible Bite of Fire: Metre, Sound Change, and Emendation in Beowulf 1122 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1720206/ Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:55:38 -0500 Line 1122 of Beowulf represents a problem where the findings of metrics, historical phonology, and the reading of the manuscript are in conflict with one another. I revive and adapt Tolkien's proposal to emend lāðbite līċes līġ ealle forswealg to lāðbite līġes līċ eall forswealg “the cruel bite of fire swallowed up the entire bodies”. This…[Read more]

]]> 0 223f6bdfa32c1ec98427b86f75b0cc18 Nelson Goering deposited Old Saxon unmet, Genesis B 313b ungemet, and unmetrical scribal forms in Germanic alliterative verse in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1718962/ Sat, 05 Dec 2020 02:23:59 -0500 The adverb ungemete, unigmetes in Beowulf and elsewhere in Old English verse creates significant metrical problems. I revive and expand the proposal of Fulk (1992) to read this as *unmet. This restoration receives support from metrics and from the comparison with Old Saxon unmet of the same meaning, and the alteration to ungemet(e), etc., in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 036b94274fbe977fc4f1ff0e8b47199f Nelson Goering deposited Old Saxon unmet, Genesis B 313b ungemet, and unmetrical scribal forms in Germanic alliterative verse https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1718916/ Fri, 04 Dec 2020 17:04:28 -0500 The adverb ungemete, unigmetes in Beowulf and elsewhere in Old English verse creates significant metrical problems. I revive and expand the proposal of Fulk (1992) to read this as *unmet. This restoration receives support from metrics and from the comparison with Old Saxon unmet of the same meaning, and the alteration to ungemet(e), etc., in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 42faa31222a703e4db063d41113ebde2 Nelson Goering deposited Eduard Sievers’ Altgermanisch Metrik 125 years on in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1717711/ Sat, 21 Nov 2020 02:23:56 -0500 Eduard Sievers’ Altgermanische Metrik remains a foundational work for Germanic metrical research, even 125 years after its publication in 1893. His impact on the field may be roughly divided into three broad approaches: 1) the impulse for the typological categorization and labelling of verses; 2) the four-position principle as the basis for a…[Read more]

]]> 0 056af39d58ea27258516d86420461f8a Nelson Goering deposited Eduard Sievers’ Altgermanisch Metrik 125 years on https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1717676/ Fri, 20 Nov 2020 16:37:30 -0500 Eduard Sievers’ Altgermanische Metrik remains a foundational work for Germanic metrical research, even 125 years after its publication in 1893. His impact on the field may be roughly divided into three broad approaches: 1) the impulse for the typological categorization and labelling of verses; 2) the four-position principle as the basis for a…[Read more]

]]> 0 39c453b7bda52ed9aac845f80d413dd8 Nelson Goering's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1707519/ Mon, 07 Sep 2020 08:57:40 -0400 0 26c907f9653a495371681031c2b09757 Nelson Goering deposited The Fall of Arthur and The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún : A Metrical Review of Three Modern English Alliterative Poems https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1705939/ Fri, 21 Aug 2020 07:39:35 -0400 J.R.R. Tolkien produced a considerable body of poetry in which he used the traditional alliterative metre of Old Norse and Old English to write modern English verse. This paper reviews three of his longer narrative poems, published in The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún and The Fall of Arthur, examining Tolkien’s alliterative technique in co…[Read more]

]]> 0 0316642902ccdcea02a835e13f6fcfce Nelson Goering deposited Lŷg and Leuca: “Elven-Latin,” Archaic Languages, and the Philology of Britain https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693760/ Sun, 28 Jun 2020 15:36:04 -0400 Tolkien modeled the relationship between his invented languages Quenya and Sindarin in part on that between Latin and Welsh.

]]> 0 521d28629a3119b81410a46684ac0188 Nelson Goering deposited Review: The Feanorian Alphabet, Part 1; Quenya Verb Structure by J.R.R. Tolkien https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693758/ Sun, 28 Jun 2020 15:30:36 -0400 Book review of The Feanorian Alphabet, Part 1; Quenya Verb Structure, by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Gilson and Arden R. Smith.

]]> 0 287caa570692a92beecdd81efac66bc1 Nelson Goering deposited Review: Tolkien's Lost Chaucer (2019) by John M. Bowers https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693757/ Sun, 28 Jun 2020 15:21:54 -0400 Book review of Tolkien's Lost Chaucer (2019) by John M. Bowers. Available at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolkienresearch/vol9/iss1/3

]]> 0 9e811f970412359dc6647358c17495b9 Nelson Goering deposited Review: Tolkien and Sanskrit (2016) by Mark T. Hooker https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693754/ Sun, 28 Jun 2020 15:08:31 -0400 Book review of Tolkien and Sanskrit (2016) by Mark T. Hooker.

]]> 0 42460c03b2cce69148f4c4db15dec4f6 Nelson Goering deposited Review: A Secret Vice (2016) by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Dimitra Fimi and Andrew Higgins https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693752/ Sun, 28 Jun 2020 15:05:58 -0400 Book review of A Secret Vice (2016) by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Dimitra Fimi and Andrew Higgins.

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