Abstract In his Old English grammar , A. Campbell put forward theory of accentuation, according to which disyllabic words like Bēowulf and ǣniġ receive a half-stress only if made trisyllabic by the addition an inflection (as in Bēowulfes or ǣniġra ), provided middle syllable is heavy. J. Bliss tacitly rejected Campbell’s analysis when he postulated existence metrical type 3B2, rare rhythmical p...