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What are the tabs/spaces for in the Beowulf text
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Here and other places they have strange spacing as seen in the picture:
Wondering what it means and what the purpose of it / if it's necessary or has some significance.
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Here and other places they have strange spacing as seen in the picture:
Wondering what it means and what the purpose of it / if it's necessary or has some significance.
literature anglo-saxons
edited 56 mins ago
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Here and other places they have strange spacing as seen in the picture:
Wondering what it means and what the purpose of it / if it's necessary or has some significance.
literature anglo-saxons
edited 56 mins ago
sempaiscuba♦
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asked 2 hours ago
Lance Pollard
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Here and other places they have strange spacing as seen in the picture:
Wondering what it means and what the purpose of it / if it's necessary or has some significance.
literature anglo-saxons
literature anglo-saxons
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Lance Pollard
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edited 56 mins ago
sempaiscuba♦
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edited 56 mins ago
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The spacing divides the 'half-lines' of the poem. This is fundamental to Old English metre, where each line of the poem consists of two half-lines, connected by alliteration.
If you are interested, the Electronic Beowulf edition, that you have linked in the question, has a section describing the meter of the poem.
By clicking the Meter option, the student may choose to have tooltips for any or all of the five different prevailing metrical theories.
The meter option can be selected from the Options pane on the left of the viewer:
answered 2 hours ago
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Wondering if the spacing (not the concept of the half-line) is a modern invention, because I'm looking at the tablet in the link to Beowulf and don't see any spaces there. Wondering if it could be "implemented" in other ways, such as a new indented line, or however you want. Or if it must be a larger space like that.
– Lance Pollard
13 mins ago
The spacing is simply a modern way of representing the half-lines in a printed text as a way of preserving the Old English metre. The original bards wouldn't have required it since it would have been memorised (and the earliest surviving manuscript (Cotton Vitellius A in the British Library), which may have been written almost 300 years after the poem was composed, doesn't even have breaks at the end of full-lines).
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1 Answer
1
active
oldest
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active
oldest
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active
oldest
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up vote
6
down vote
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The spacing divides the 'half-lines' of the poem. This is fundamental to Old English metre, where each line of the poem consists of two half-lines, connected by alliteration.
If you are interested, the Electronic Beowulf edition, that you have linked in the question, has a section describing the meter of the poem.
By clicking the Meter option, the student may choose to have tooltips for any or all of the five different prevailing metrical theories.
The meter option can be selected from the Options pane on the left of the viewer:
answered 2 hours ago
sempaiscuba♦
42.1k4148187
Wondering if the spacing (not the concept of the half-line) is a modern invention, because I'm looking at the tablet in the link to Beowulf and don't see any spaces there. Wondering if it could be "implemented" in other ways, such as a new indented line, or however you want. Or if it must be a larger space like that.
– Lance Pollard
13 mins ago
The spacing is simply a modern way of representing the half-lines in a printed text as a way of preserving the Old English metre. The original bards wouldn't have required it since it would have been memorised (and the earliest surviving manuscript (Cotton Vitellius A in the British Library), which may have been written almost 300 years after the poem was composed, doesn't even have breaks at the end of full-lines).
– sempaiscuba♦
2 mins ago
add a comment |Â
up vote
6
down vote
accepted
The spacing divides the 'half-lines' of the poem. This is fundamental to Old English metre, where each line of the poem consists of two half-lines, connected by alliteration.
If you are interested, the Electronic Beowulf edition, that you have linked in the question, has a section describing the meter of the poem.
By clicking the Meter option, the student may choose to have tooltips for any or all of the five different prevailing metrical theories.
The meter option can be selected from the Options pane on the left of the viewer:
answered 2 hours ago
sempaiscuba♦
42.1k4148187
Wondering if the spacing (not the concept of the half-line) is a modern invention, because I'm looking at the tablet in the link to Beowulf and don't see any spaces there. Wondering if it could be "implemented" in other ways, such as a new indented line, or however you want. Or if it must be a larger space like that.
– Lance Pollard
13 mins ago
The spacing is simply a modern way of representing the half-lines in a printed text as a way of preserving the Old English metre. The original bards wouldn't have required it since it would have been memorised (and the earliest surviving manuscript (Cotton Vitellius A in the British Library), which may have been written almost 300 years after the poem was composed, doesn't even have breaks at the end of full-lines).
– sempaiscuba♦
2 mins ago
add a comment |Â
up vote
6
down vote
accepted
up vote
6
down vote
accepted
The spacing divides the 'half-lines' of the poem. This is fundamental to Old English metre, where each line of the poem consists of two half-lines, connected by alliteration.
If you are interested, the Electronic Beowulf edition, that you have linked in the question, has a section describing the meter of the poem.
By clicking the Meter option, the student may choose to have tooltips for any or all of the five different prevailing metrical theories.
The meter option can be selected from the Options pane on the left of the viewer:
answered 2 hours ago
sempaiscuba♦
42.1k4148187
The spacing divides the 'half-lines' of the poem. This is fundamental to Old English metre, where each line of the poem consists of two half-lines, connected by alliteration.
If you are interested, the Electronic Beowulf edition, that you have linked in the question, has a section describing the meter of the poem.
By clicking the Meter option, the student may choose to have tooltips for any or all of the five different prevailing metrical theories.
The meter option can be selected from the Options pane on the left of the viewer:
answered 2 hours ago
sempaiscuba♦
42.1k4148187
edited 22 mins ago
answered 2 hours ago
sempaiscuba♦
42.1k4148187
answered 2 hours ago
sempaiscuba♦
42.1k4148187
answered 2 hours ago
sempaiscuba♦
42.1k4148187
42.1k4148187
Wondering if the spacing (not the concept of the half-line) is a modern invention, because I'm looking at the tablet in the link to Beowulf and don't see any spaces there. Wondering if it could be "implemented" in other ways, such as a new indented line, or however you want. Or if it must be a larger space like that.
– Lance Pollard
13 mins ago
The spacing is simply a modern way of representing the half-lines in a printed text as a way of preserving the Old English metre. The original bards wouldn't have required it since it would have been memorised (and the earliest surviving manuscript (Cotton Vitellius A in the British Library), which may have been written almost 300 years after the poem was composed, doesn't even have breaks at the end of full-lines).
– sempaiscuba♦
2 mins ago
add a comment |Â
Wondering if the spacing (not the concept of the half-line) is a modern invention, because I'm looking at the tablet in the link to Beowulf and don't see any spaces there. Wondering if it could be "implemented" in other ways, such as a new indented line, or however you want. Or if it must be a larger space like that.
– Lance Pollard
13 mins ago
The spacing is simply a modern way of representing the half-lines in a printed text as a way of preserving the Old English metre. The original bards wouldn't have required it since it would have been memorised (and the earliest surviving manuscript (Cotton Vitellius A in the British Library), which may have been written almost 300 years after the poem was composed, doesn't even have breaks at the end of full-lines).
– sempaiscuba♦
2 mins ago
Wondering if the spacing (not the concept of the half-line) is a modern invention, because I'm looking at the tablet in the link to Beowulf and don't see any spaces there. Wondering if it could be "implemented" in other ways, such as a new indented line, or however you want. Or if it must be a larger space like that.
– Lance Pollard
13 mins ago
Wondering if the spacing (not the concept of the half-line) is a modern invention, because I'm looking at the tablet in the link to Beowulf and don't see any spaces there. Wondering if it could be "implemented" in other ways, such as a new indented line, or however you want. Or if it must be a larger space like that.
– Lance Pollard
13 mins ago
The spacing is simply a modern way of representing the half-lines in a printed text as a way of preserving the Old English metre. The original bards wouldn't have required it since it would have been memorised (and the earliest surviving manuscript (Cotton Vitellius A in the British Library), which may have been written almost 300 years after the poem was composed, doesn't even have breaks at the end of full-lines).
– sempaiscuba♦
2 mins ago
The spacing is simply a modern way of representing the half-lines in a printed text as a way of preserving the Old English metre. The original bards wouldn't have required it since it would have been memorised (and the earliest surviving manuscript (Cotton Vitellius A in the British Library), which may have been written almost 300 years after the poem was composed, doesn't even have breaks at the end of full-lines).
– sempaiscuba♦
2 mins ago
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