Timeline for Correct way of reading The Nibelungenlied
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| Oct 18, 2014 at 17:08 | comment | added | rogermue | @JBJ - I don't care about academic theories or how many syllables the last line has - I didn't even count them - I read the lines as I think it's a natural rhythm. | |
| Oct 17, 2014 at 1:02 | comment | added | Jim | I agree with you @JanusBahsJacquet. That's how I read it as well. | |
| Oct 16, 2014 at 23:10 | comment | added | Robusto | i rather think that shall ye is just a pick-up to the downbeat of now. So there would be only four beats in the last half of that line (which matches the last lines of the other stanzas then). | |
| Oct 16, 2014 at 21:38 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | This suggested accentuation of the last line doesn’t really work—it makes five accented syllables, rather than four. My intuitive reading would be “shall yé now mány a wónder knów”. | |
| Oct 16, 2014 at 21:19 | comment | added | rogermue | I have added a dash to indicate a pause. | |
| Oct 16, 2014 at 21:18 | history | edited | rogermue | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 16, 2014 at 21:11 | comment | added | rogermue | A possibility, I agree. When I read it I make a pause after "sháll ye nów - mány a wónder knów. This part is special because there is an interior rhyme in it, now + know - it's not an exact rhyme but it comes near a rhyme. | |
| Oct 16, 2014 at 20:54 | comment | added | Kristina Lopez | I agree with your accents except for the last phrase where it seems that "shall ye now" is a "pickup" (to borrow a musical notation term) to the "downbeat" of "many". So to make it fit, I'd run shall ye and now together and put the first accent on many...*shall-ye-now mány a wónder knów* | |
| Oct 16, 2014 at 19:08 | comment | added | Максим Кольцов | First of all, thank you for pointing out the Reclam edition, I'll have a look. I'm looking at your accents and when I try it, it sounds just weird :) Maybe it's just because this poetic style is so different from what is usual in my native culture (Russian). | |
| Oct 16, 2014 at 19:05 | history | edited | rogermue | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 16, 2014 at 18:57 | history | answered | rogermue | CC BY-SA 3.0 |