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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon (TGT) 6III

CCCM 40A, 198: Collisio est, quotiens nouissimea syllabae finis in alterius principio est, ut ‘matertera’CCCM 40, 202: Collisiones dicuntur, quando male coniunctae litterae, uidelicet m posita inter duas uocales conliditur, ut Multum ille et terris iactatus et alto, uel quando ab eadem syllaba incipit sequens sermo, in quam terminauit praecedens ut ‘mater terra’ ‘It is said to be collisiones when there are ill-joined letters, namely when m placed between two vowels clashes, e.g. Multum ille et terris iactatus et alto, or when the following word begins by the same syllable which the preceding ends, as in mater terra’; CCCM 40B, 334: Collisiones sunt, cum asperae consonantes in constructione sibi occurunt, ut est illud ‘si iuret auriga per lora, per flagella, per frena’, uel quando multae uocales glomerantur, ut Virgilius: ‘multum ille et terris iactatus et alto’Collisiones are when aspirated consonants occur in the same construction, as it is: si iuret auriga per lora, per flagella, per frena, or when many vowels amass, as Virgil: multum ille et terris iactatus et alto.’

References

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  2. CCCM = [Anonymous] Corpus Christianorum. 1971-. Continuatio mediaevalis. Turnhout: Brepols.

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