Medieval Literature

Beowulf

Niles PMLAA 94:924-935; ABCDCBA; ABCDEFGHIHGFEDCBA; ABCDEFGFEDCBA.

 

Parzival, Wolfram von Eschenbach

I - X

R. Smith; ABCB

I 109 - X 826

R. Smith; ABA (324, 70, 324 sections), with Grail at center, framed by Orient and East.

 

The Dream of the Rood

G. Tate Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 79:122-123; “figura crucis”; “chiasmus as metaphor.”

 

El Cid (Cantar de mio CidCrónica de Veinte Reyes)

1072-73 ∥CVR 122r

B. Smith MAM 14:156; chiasm of separate versions of epic.

2402-03

B. Smith MAM 14:155; ABCCBA.

2402 ∥CVR 157r

B. Smith MAM 14:160; chiasm of separate versions of epic.

2403 ∥CVR 157r

B. Smith MAM 14:160; chiasm of separate versions of epic.

2691...2696 ∥CVR 158r

B. Smith MAM 14:158; chiasm of separate versions of epic.

2763 ∥CVR 158r

B. Smith MAM 14:157; ABCDDCBA; chiasm of separate versions of epic.

2901-06 ∥CVR 159r

B. Smith MAM 14:159; chiasm of separate versions of epic.

3310 ∥CVR 160v

B. Smith MAM 14:160; chiasm of separate versions of epic.

3393 ∥CVR 161r

B. Smith MAM 14:158; chiasm of separate versions of epic.

3714 ∥CVR 162r

B. Smith MAM 14:160; chiasm of separate versions of epic.