TNTL 110

Mariken Goris

Het metrum in de gedichten van de Gentse Boethiusvertaling uit 1485. Een evaluatie van een methode

Abstract - The 39 poems in the Medieval Dutch translation of Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae of 1485 are examined for their (jambic) metre, by using the method of Halle & Keyser (1971). Ten percent of the verses turned out not to fit in the jambic pattern. That is considerably more compared with other Medieval Dutch poems. It can be concluded that this Dutch translation of the Consolatio is not jambic, but isosyllabic. Finally, the method of Halle and Keyser is criticized and suggestions to improve this method are added.