Hook style

In the old German verse theory, the incongruity of long line and syntactic units is called the hook style , in which the clauses often coincide with the end of the first half-verse, while the following abversive forms a syntactic unit with the anterior of the following line.

The term was coined by Eduard Sievers . When Andreas Heusler this form of entanglement is arch style called.

Hook style appears very often in Beowulf , Heliand and Hildebrandslied . An example from Heliand :

managoro mundboro. ' | Thô hêt ine mahtig Crist
gangan imu tegegnes. | He uuarð garu sâno,
stôp af themu stamne | endi strîdiun geng
forð te is frôian. | Thiu flôd anthabde

In modern poetry, the hook style is also used when enjambements appear in heaps in a poem .

literature

• Siegfried Beyschlag: Line and hook style: its artistic use in the Nibelungenstrophe and in Hildebrandston. In: Contributions to the history of the German language and literature. Vol. 56 (1932), pp. 225-313.
• Dieter Burdorf, Christoph Fasbender, Burkhard Moennighoff (Hrsg.): Metzler Lexicon literature. Terms and definitions. 3. Edition. Metzler, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-476-01612-6 , p. 301.
• Harald Haferland: Verbal written form and written oral form: on the function and origin of the hook style and variation in the all-in-all poetry, using the example of "Heliand". In: Yearbook of the Association for Low German Language Research. Vol. 129 (2006), pp. 7-41.
• Dietrich Hofmann: Staff position, hook style and choice of type in the long lines of Heliand: a metric-statistical study. In: Yearbook of the Association for Low German Language Research. 117: 7-23 (1994).
• Otto Paul, Ingeborg Glier : German metrics. 9th edition. Hueber, Munich 1974, p. 35 f.
• Gero von Wilpert : Subject dictionary of literature. 8th edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-520-84601-3 , p. 324.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eduard Sievers: Old Germanic metrics. Halle an der Saale 1893.
2. ^ Andreas Heusler: German verse history. Vol. 1. Berlin 1925.
3. ↑ Heliand. V. 2938–2941 ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .