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its emphasis on heroic epic. The Old High German and Old Saxon corpus of Stabreim or alliterative verse is small. Fewer than 200 Old High German lines survive

developed the libretti for these operas according to his interpretation of Stabreim, highly alliterative rhyming verse-pairs used in old Germanic poetry. They

that it was a survival of the ancient form of Germanic poetry known as Stabreim, but in actuality, it was his liberal adaption of Schulz's direct German

the entire text that strives to remain faithful to the early medieval Stabreim technique Wagner used. Wagner (1994), p. 287. Wagner (1994), pp. 336–337

inspired by the Nordic Eddas, from which he took the alliterative verse stabreim. The tetralogy took him twenty-six years of work, and its performance brought

probably the first mention of rhyme in Europe, an early form of the German Stabreim, which became widely popular in the Mediaeval Ages. The Romans were acquainted

and scientific ideas. His main work was his Nibelungen-Epos, written in Stabreim (alliterative verse) - in it, he used the Old Norse saga of the same name

Francis. pp. 218–223. ISBN 9781884964985. Marold, E. [in German] (2005). "Stabreim" [Alliterative Verse]. In Hoops, Johannes [in German] (ed.). Reallexikon

libretto, written in an archaic form of German alliterative verse known as Stabreim. Wagner created his verse drafts by versifying the dialogue already contained