When modern readers begin to peruse Old English poetry, they are impressed with Old English syntax, too exotic for modern mind. To those who are accustomed to the analytic language, the synthetic Old English gives a strange heavy feeling, nearly all t...
When modern readers begin to peruse Old English poetry, they are impressed with Old English syntax, too exotic for modern mind. To those who are accustomed to the analytic language, the synthetic Old English gives a strange heavy feeling, nearly all the words being loaded with both meaning and function. Furthermore, Old Englosh in the course of development is still naive and illogical in expressing thoughts. Those syntactic features are inevitably reflected in poetry. In this paper an attcmpt is made to analyse Deor syntactically and find out what effects Old English syntax exercises on poetry.