Abstract The metre of the Old English metrical charms is highly unusual according to all postulated systems scansion. Their numerous irregularities have led previous studies dismiss as corrupt or poor verse. present study subjects stylometric analysis for first time and demonstrates that their are in fact both predictable explicable. It argues aesthetically sophisticated vivid narrative poems, ...

Abstract As regards Old English, the inflectional strength and weakness are characterised by a kind of inconsistency. In case English adjectives these two properties appear to be different from those associated with nouns verbs. latter seem lexically determined while in they syntactic conditions. The traditional accounts grammar attribute paradigms one adjectival lexical item. analysis presente...