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The manuscripts in which many Old English poems survive are the culmination of centuries of scribal recopying. Modern editors of such poems typically regard lines that do not conform to the poems' metrical or alliterative patterns as scribal errors and emend them accordingly. Scholars opposed to emendation contend that verses exhibiting such deficiencies should not automatically be regarded as corrupt, since poets might deliberately compose defective verses for artistic purposes. However, such argumentation is predicated on modern notions of poets as individuals who violate conventions to distinguish themselves from their predecessors and to express their unique literary sensibilities. On the relatively rare occasions when transmitted verses exhibit metrical or alliterative deficiencies, their sense or syntax show independent signs of scribal corruption.
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