ABSTRACT

This response by Eduard Sievers (1850-1932) to item 96 above gave rise to a string of exchanges between Sarrazin, Sievers and J.H.Gallée, which remains more significant methodologically than is always realised. Sievers begins his ‘Die Heimat des Beowulfdichters’, BGDSL 11 (1886), 354-62, by referring to Sarrazin and declaring rather scornfully that he has no intention of merely opposing opinion to opinion. Pp. 354-5.