[36] _Ane Schort Treatise, conteining some Revlis and Cautelis to be obseruit and eschewit in Scottis poesie_, 1585, pp. 63 ff. of Arber's reprint. The scheme would be ` ` ´ ` ` ´ ` ` ´ ` ` ´ `. [37] From Hickes's _Antiq. Literat. Septentrional._, tom. i, p. 217. [38] It is now well known that this innovation was introduced much earlier. [39] From Alexander Montgomery, _The Flyting_, &c., l. 476. [40] 'Über den Versbau der alliterierenden Poesie, besonders der Altsachsen,' _Bay. Akademie der Wissenschaften, philos.-histor. Classe_, iv. 1, p. 207 ff. [41] _Litteraturgeschichte_, p. 45 ff., second ed., p. 57. [42] _Über die germanische Alliterationspoesie_, Vienna, 1872, and _Zum Muspilli_, &c., Vienna, 1872. [43] 'Über die Verstheilung der Edda,' _Zeitschr. für deutsche Phil._, Ergänzungsband, p. 74. [44] _Die Alt- und Angelsächsische Verskunst_, Halle, 1876, reprinted from _Z. f. d. Ph._, vol. vii. [45] The author's larger work on English Metre was indebted in paragraphs 28-33 to Rieger's essay; succeeding paragraphs (34-39) of the same work exhibited in detail the further development or rather decay of the Old English alliterative line. [46] C. R. Horn, _Paul und Braune's Beiträge_, v. 164; J. Ries, _Quellen und Forschungen_, xli. 112; E. Sievers, _Zeitschr. f. deutsche Phil._, xix. 43. [47] _Paul und Braune's Beiträge_, x, 1885, pp. 209-314 and 491-545. [48] Sievers, Paul's _Grundriss_, ii. 1, p. 863, or ii. 2, p. 4, second ed. [49] _Paul und Braune's Beiträge_, xi. 470. [50] Ph. Frucht, _Metrisches und Sprachliches zu Cynewulfs Elene, Juliana und Crist_, Greifswald, 1887. [51] M. Cremer, _Metrische und sprachliche Untersuchung der altengl. Gedichte Andreas, Gûðlâc, Phoenix_, Bonn, 1888. [52] _Altgermanische Metrik_, Halle, 1893. [53] Mainly by H. Möller, _Das Volksepos in der ursprünglichen strophischen Form_, Kiel, 1883. [54] Besides the unaccented syllables of polysyllabic words, many monosyllables, such as prepositions, pronouns, &c., are unstressed, and occur only in the theses. [55] This rule applies to modern English also, as in words like _bírth-rìght_. [56] If this cross alliteration is intentional. See Sievers, _Altger. Metrik_, p. 41. [57] See Koch, _Historische Grammatik der englischen Sprache_, Weimar, 1863, i. 156. [58] Compare Streitberg, _Urgermanische Grammatik_, 1900, § 143, p. 167, or Wilmanns, _Deutsche Grammatik_, 1897, i, p. 407, § 349. [59] For exceptions to these rules see _Englische Metrik_, i, pp. 43, 45. [60] Koch adds _wiðǽftan_, _wiðfóran_, _wiðnéoðan_. [61] Sievers, _Beiträge_, x. 225, and _Angelsächsische Grammatik_³, §§ 410, 411, 415.³