{"product_id":"verse-and-the-language-of-old-germanic-poetry","title":"Verse and the Language of Old Germanic Poetry","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first English translation of Olga A. Smirnitskaya’s influential 1994 Russian work on Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse studies.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 1994, Moscow State University professor Olga A. Smirnitskaya published a significant work in the field of Old Germanic Philology entitled \u003ci\u003eThe Verse and Language of Old Germanic Poetry (Стих и язык древнегерманской поэзии). \u003c\/i\u003eThe book was lauded as one of the most important contributions from the Russian school of Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse studies to the worldwide scholarship in that field. It covers the emergence and evolution of Old Germanic verse forms from the earliest runic inscriptions to the pinnacles achieved in Old English\u003ci\u003e Beowulf\u003c\/i\u003e and Old Norse skaldic poetry. This translation is a fundamental piece of scholarship that will be in great demand by non-Russian-speaking scholars working in the fields of Old English and Old Norse language and literature all over the world, as well as by wider scholarly audiences involved in any aspect of studies of Old Germanic languages and literature, especially poetry and meters.","brand":"Arizona Center for Medieval \u0026 Renaissance Studies,US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54260660928856,"sku":"9780866986472","price":84.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/verse-and-the-language-of-old-germanic-poetry","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}