Alliteration in Culture by Jonathan Roper

Author:Jonathan Roper
Format: epub
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

hon skell um hlaut/fyr skillinga

– für tönende Ringe/der tötende Hammer

(she got a loud stroke/instead of money; in German, literally:for clanging rings/the killing hammer)

These examples lead us to a consideration of the role of onomatopoeia in the lay. Vocabulary belonging to the semantic field ‘noise’, sometimes as onomatopoeia, is truly rendered by Chamisso, sometimes additional means of this kind are used:

Látom und hánom/hrynia lukla

– Klug lass’ er erklingen/Geklirr der Schlüssel

(in German, literally:Let him clever rattle/the sound of keys)

Here, ‘klug’, clever, is inserted for additional alliteration or paronomasia.

Or, again:

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