Alliteration occurs in a wide variety of contexts in stress-initial languages, including Icelandic, Finnish and Mongolian. It can be found in English from Beowulf to The Sun . Nevertheless, alliteration remains an unexamined phenomenon. This pioneering volume takes alliteration as its central focus across a variety of languages and domains.

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RAGNAR INGI AÐALSTEINSSON is both a published poet and a researcher on metrics. He is currently an adjunct in Icelandic at the University of Iceland KRISTJÁN ÁRNASON is Professor of Icelandic Linguistics at the University of Iceland ROLF H. BREMMER JR is Senior Lecturer in Medieval English and, by special appointment, Professor of Frisian at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands PAUL COWDELL was a professional actor before entering the academic world. He is currently researching contemporary belief in ghosts at the University of Hertfordshire, UK LENNART HAGÅSEN, works at the Department of Onomastics (Namnavdelningen) of the Institute for Language and Folklore (Institutet för språk och folkminnen) in Uppsala, Sweden HELENA HALMARI is a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English at Sam Houston State University, USA JEREMY HARTE is a Researcher into the overlap between folklore and the landscape. He trained as a museum professional, and is curator of the Bourne Hall Museum, UK MICHIKO KANEKO works at the Centre for Deaf Studies at the University of Bristol, UK GYÖRGY KARA, longtime Professor of Inner Asian studies at ELTE University of Budapest, is currently Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA LARISSA NAIDITCH is Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Linguistics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, where she teaches Gothic, Old Icelandic, Old and Middle High German MARTIN ORWIN is Senior Lecturer in Somali andAmharic at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK EILA STEPANOVA is based at the University of Helsinki's Department of Folklore Studies, Finland, where she is presently working on the language, structure and compositional strategies of Karelian laments FROG is presently a Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki, Department of Folklore Studies, Finland VILMOS VOIGT is Professor of Folklore, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Philosophy, Budapest, Hungary FIONNUALA CARSON WILLIAMS (Northern Ireland) is a folklorist specialising in proverbs

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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Key topics in the study of alliteration; J.Roper Love, Silver and the Devil: Alliteration in English Place-Names; J.Harte Alliteration in English-language Versions of Current Widespread European Idioms and Proverbs; F.C.Williams Alliteration in Inaugural Addresses: From George Washington to Barack Obama; H.Halmari Purposely to Please the Palates of Pretty Prattling Playfellows; P.Cowdell Dealing Dooms: Alliteration in the Old Frisian Laws; R.H.Bremmer Jr Restrictions on Alliteration and Rhyme in Contemporary Swedish Personal Names with an Old Germanic Retrospect; L.Hagåsen Alliteration in the 'Þrymskviða' and in Chamisso's German translation; L.Naiditch Alliteration in Iceland: From the Edda to Modern Verse and Pop Lyrics; K.Árnason Alliteration Involving /s/ in the History of Icelandic poetry; R.I.Aðalsteinsson Alliteration in Mongol Poetry; G.Kara Around Analysis and Hypothesis of Hungarian Alliteration; V.Voigts Alliteration in (Balto-) Finnic Languages; Frog & E.Stepanova Alliteration in Somali Poetry; M.Orwin Alliteration in Sign Language Poetry; M.Kaneko Index