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The adverb ungemete, unigmetes in Beowulf and elsewhere in Old English verse creates significant metrical problems. I revive and expand the proposal of Fulk (1992) to read this as *unmet. This rest...

Seventeenth-century writers about Dutch art and language, wishing to promote a vernacular culture as a counterweight to the dominant ideals of Southern Europe, developed a view of Germanic antiquity. Exporting their visual art, the Dutch brought linguistic attitudes suggestive of a common Germanic history to Britain, as three authors exemplify: Richard Verstegan, Franciscus Junius and Samuel van Hoogstraten. Their writings presented simplicity as a distinctly Germanic quality. Imaginative etymologies, providing equivalents for the artistic vocabulary of humanism, proved that Germanic civilization was the purest continuation of classical antiquity since ‘bastard Latin languages’ had been corrupted by the Dark Ages. The pre-eminence of Netherlandish painting thus reflected the courage and integrity of the tribes praised by Tacitus. The aims formulated in Dutch art theory to ‘follow the simplicity of nature’ became interrelated to cultural ideals of masculinity and imperturbability.

For many decades now there has been talk in college and university pedagogy about the necessity of viewing the college student primarily as the subject of learning. But the reality of life, both inside the institution of higher learning and outside of it, have been such that for a long time this talk has remained nothing more than just that. Have there been any actual changes observed in the motivation, content, and level of learning and cognitive activity of college students today? We attempted to answer this question on the basis of a study of the change in the learning and cognitive activity of college students at Samara State University over almost two decades. In 1981 the laboratory of sociological research at our university carried out a survey to study the current state of the learning and cognitive activity of college students. A total of 400 students in five specialties were surveyed (mathematics, physics, history, Russian language and literature, and Romance and Germanic philology). In 1997 and ...

(1941). German and West Germanic. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 3-20.