Ancient Germanic Poetry: Canons and Interpretations

The canons of ancient German poetic art are considered in this book as a tool for the formation of a poetic language and as a source of new cultural information. The starting point for the analysis serves a laudatory poetry of scalds with its strictly regulated metric rules and lexical models. The Scald metric is considered in the book as a result of the system transformation of the Eddic metric and a kind of linguistic experiment, which is absoluting the principle of the convention of the language sign. "The loss of the sons" Egil Skallagirimson (X century) and" List of Ingling"s Todolva Cyvinsky (IX century) appear in this perspective as a multidirectional genre branch from the main barrel of scaldic poetry, which are of interest to understand the possibilities of the ability and requiring new techniques of texture Analysis. The central place in the book occupies a comment on "loss of sons" - one of the most famous and difficult to interpret the scalidical works