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English

Also in 1883, he published Das altenglische Volksepos in der ursprünglichen strophischen Form, 'The Old English Folk Epic in the Original Strophic Form', in which he argued, among other things, that Beowulf had been composed in a fixed meter which was corrupted by later poets (ib.).

Italian

In Das altenglische Volksepos in der ursprünglichen strophischen Form ("L'epica popolare in antico inglese nella sua forma metrica originale", 1883) sostenne che originariamente il Beowulf aveva uno schema metrico fisso, che sarebbe stato corrotto in seguito da altri poeti.