title: Old English Metre: An Introduction (Toronto Anglo-Saxon)
author:  Jun Terasawa 
description: Jun Terasawa is to be congratulated on having written an illuminating work, clear, succinct, and rational I will happily recommend it to my students. (Mark Griffith <i>Notes &amp; Queries; vol 59:03:2012</i>)<br /><br />Terasawas volume is a boon to students learning about Old English Metre for the first time The books subject is vital to anyone who would achieve a sophisticated understanding of the language of Old English poetic texts. (Christopher M. Cain <i>Journal of English and Germanic Philology, April 2014</i>)
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  **For Jayden, who welcomed me to his world with a hug and an unforgettable
  message**
  
  > > **Home,** _from the Middle English_ hom _and Old English_ ham
  
  > > >  _Noun:_ a place to live by choice, sometimes with family or friends; a
  > haven; a place of origin, comfort, and often of valued memories.
  
   _By the end of the 2012 school year, an estimated thirty thousand children in
  the city of Chicago were without a home. This number does not include those
  living in the surrounding suburbs, and is thought to be low. What does thirty
  thousand look like? Count out thirty pennies and pretend that each one has a
  name. Now make one thousand groups of thirty pennies. These are our children._
  
  > > **Time,** _from the Middle English and Old English_ tima
  
  > > >  _Noun:_ an even flow in which events occur from past through present
  > and into future, with measurements kept by a circular system of numbers; the
  > beat found in musical rhythms; a fated moment.
  
  > >  **Lost,** 