Knowledge Commons | Old English / Early Medieval England | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/anglo-saxon-old-english/ Activity feed for the group, Old English / Early Medieval England. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:15:34 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 6c2c346a79731dd15e89933bfdf71bf4 Nelson Goering deposited Atlakviða, reversal, and theories of Germanic alliterative metre in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861919/ Tue, 17 Oct 2023 03:00:24 -0400 The Norse poem Atlakviða shows an irregular metre which is difficult to classify. This makes it a useful test case for comparing the explanatory abilities of two major theoretical frameworks of Germanic alliterative verse: the positional theory and the word-foot theory. I argue that the word-foot theory is more successful, especially in deriving…[Read more]

]]> 0 54fe31f62175313648f0b184d0f71817 Nelson Goering deposited Old Mercian: From Beowulf to Tolkien’s Rohan in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1860319/ Mon, 02 Oct 2023 03:00:05 -0400 An overview of the dialect of Old English used by Tolkien to represent the language of Rohan. I argue that Tolkien chose the dialect represented by the early glossaries in Old Mercian, especially the eighth-century Corpus Glossary, as representatives of the kind of Old English he thought Beowulf was originally composed in.

]]> 0 b86dd404e4d0981d9048ba8f80e1bdfe Thijs Porck deposited “Runenoefeningen. De Oudgermanistiek in Leidse kinderschoenen in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856299/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:13:10 -0400 Thijs Porck, “Runenoefeningen. De Oudgermanistiek in Leidse kinderschoenen”, in Tot publijcque dienst der studie: Boeken uit de Bibliotheca Thysiana, ed. Wim van Anrooij & Paul Hoftijzer (Hilversum: Verloren, 2023), 118-119

]]> 0 a017015b367ff0e4d271c96b245a2d31 Thijs Porck deposited “I can read Hollandsch very fairly. The Correspondence between James Murray (1837-1915) and Pieter Jacob Cosijn (1840-1899) in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856287/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:11:56 -0400 Thijs Porck, “I can read Hollandsch very fairly. The Correspondence between James Murray (1837-1915) and Pieter Jacob Cosijn (1840-1899)”, in Language Use, Usage Guides, and Linguistic Norms, ed. Luisella Caon, Marion Elenbaas & Janet Grijzenhout (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021), 107-129.

]]> 0 17ac71930e0004af6b791211f5b09c15 Nelson Goering deposited Metre in Old Saxon and Old High German in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1836310/ Sat, 04 Mar 2023 02:23:42 -0500 Schematic (bullet-point) overview of Old Saxon and Old High German metre, with a particular emphasis on alliterative verse. My goal is to sketch out the main features of the metre, especially in comparison with Old English, rather than to delve into theoretical fundamentals (though an appendix touching on that topic is included). I also append a…[Read more]

]]> 0 0975e5ad915830e1c60b992f858499fa Nelson Goering deposited Old English Metre in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1836308/ Sat, 04 Mar 2023 02:23:39 -0500 An overview of the main features of Old English metre, including a comparison of theories for the basic operation of the metrical system.

]]> 0 7ecfe8f6c8edf2ac89120d264d6178cd Katherine Cross deposited Moving on from ‘the Milk of Simpler Teaching’: Weaning and Religious Education in Early Medieval England in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1832287/ Thu, 02 Feb 2023 02:24:21 -0500 This chapter is published within Early Medieval English Life Courses: Cultural-Historical Perspectives, ed. Porck and Soper. Please email me if you would like to cite it and I will send you a PDF with page numbers.

]]> 0 67bf4416349f0cc15e8031394cb58997 Nelson Goering deposited Review of Poetic Style and Innovation in Old English, Old Norse, and Old Saxon in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791366/ Wed, 24 Aug 2022 02:25:56 -0400 Review of Poetic Style and Innovation in Old English, Old Norse, and Old Saxon, by Megan E. Hartman, Berlin/Boston, Walter de Gruyter, 2020, pp. XII + 213, £83.00, ISBN: 978-1-5015-1832-4

]]> 0 60ea8f7db21f0e4f37b7a6ac91f2cd6c Nelson Goering deposited Phonological Evidence for Resolution in Early Middle English in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1790480/ Mon, 15 Aug 2022 02:24:02 -0400 A review of evidence for foot structure from early Middle English.

]]> 0 9e421aa94e24ebf5c0ababb2048d9388 Thijs Porck deposited [Review of] Mark Atherton, Complete Old English: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Old English with Original Texts in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1782594/ Thu, 26 May 2022 02:28:20 -0400 Published in English Studies (2022)

]]> 0 a28067062683d7b55207eac812a64836 Thijs Porck deposited [Review of] Ursula Lenker and Lucia Kornexl (eds.). Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1782591/ Thu, 26 May 2022 02:27:55 -0400 Published in Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 80 (2020), 233-236.

]]> 0 d66689624dbb4b5807fd61be827fe990 Thijs Porck deposited [Review of] H. Gneuss and M. Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts. A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1782588/ Thu, 26 May 2022 02:27:30 -0400 Published in Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 76 (2016), 551-553.

]]> 0 5cefc3eaefd0d49bdf261447f4f90fbb Thijs Porck deposited [Review of] J. D. Niles, The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England 1066-1901. Remembering, Forgetting, Deciphering, and Renewing the Past in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1782585/ Thu, 26 May 2022 02:27:06 -0400 Published in Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 76 (2016), 435–438.

]]> 0 c19747376f47a1c1fc453f11df6066d8 Thijs Porck deposited [Review of] E. Treharne, Living through Conquest: The Politics of Early English, 1020-1220 in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1782582/ Thu, 26 May 2022 02:26:41 -0400 Published in English Studies 96 (2015), 225–226.

]]> 0 dfb2d617db28a436a8da2bb16ec30aa6 Thijs Porck deposited [Review of] R.M. Hogg and R.D. Fulk,A Grammar of Old English. Volume 2: Morphology in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1782579/ Thu, 26 May 2022 02:26:17 -0400 Published in English Studies 94 (2013), 733–734.

]]> 0 b86f889f2fd2d600649994c27040ef43 Thijs Porck deposited [Review of] The Old English Boethius. An Edition of the Old English Versions of Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae, ed. M. Godden and S. Irvine in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1782576/ Thu, 26 May 2022 02:25:52 -0400 Published in English Studies 92 (2011), 100–102.

]]> 0 2c1bfde5f788c5446c7fe1f048cf37d9 Thijs Porck deposited [Review of] E.R. Anderson, Understanding Beowulf as an Indo-European Epic: A Study in Comparative Mythology in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1782573/ Thu, 26 May 2022 02:25:27 -0400 Published in English Studies 92 (2011), 693–694.

]]> 0 0641d9a080ea8164ca56f4b334b7aaf0 Thijs Porck deposited [Review of] T. Bolton, The Empire of Cnut the Great: Conquest and the Consolidation of Power in Northern Europe in the Early Eleventh Century in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1782570/ Thu, 26 May 2022 02:25:01 -0400 Published in English Studies 94 (2013), 235–237

]]> 0 cdd99185a65043e22ec696f8a111f579 Thijs Porck deposited Gerontophobia in Early Medieval England: Anglo-Saxon Reflections on Old Age in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1770516/ Sat, 05 Feb 2022 02:25:39 -0500 Thijs Porck, “Gerontophobia in Early Medieval England: Anglo-Saxon Reflections on Old Age”, in Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World, ed. Maren Clegg Hyer and Gale R. Owen-Crocker (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020), 219-235, 278-282, 287.

]]> 0 b6712da9c067e647c7bbca84063ded84 Thijs Porck deposited Let Them Be Vlogged! Video Assignments for the Old English Classroom in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1763858/ Sun, 26 Dec 2021 02:25:34 -0500 A brief article reporting on an educational strategy to use video assignments on Exeter Book Riddles for an Old English course.

]]> 0 b7d6321de566e50bde95e3db6ffc6f70 Thijs Porck deposited Beowulf: A Dutch Paper Doll Pirate History (1934) in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1763855/ Sun, 26 Dec 2021 02:25:10 -0500 Reports on the existence of a set of paper dolls based on the Old English poem Beowulf, published in various Dutch newspapers in the 1930s.

]]> 0 6f3a21eec184cfb3640727445ef3904c Thijs Porck deposited De Middeleeuwen in Midden-aarde. J.R.R. Tol- kien en zijn Oudengelse inspiratiebronnen in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1763852/ Sun, 26 Dec 2021 02:24:45 -0500 A Dutch article that discusses some of the Old English sources that inspired J. R. R. Tolkien.

]]> 0 b70178db8236d523847a47a5ac1fdd5e Dominik Waßenhoven deposited Vom Verraten und Beraten. Æthelred the Unready (978–1016) im Urteil seiner Zeitgenossen in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1750670/ Fri, 03 Sep 2021 02:25:11 -0400 Was King Æthelred ‘the Unready’ seen as a failure by his contemporaries? The study looks at sources that were written during and immediately after Æthelred’s reign in order to see if the king was criticised or blamed for the misfortunes in the conflicts with the Danes. The most important authors to be considered are Ælfric of Eynsham and Archbish…[Read more]

]]> 0 f41eea30ea9b6010e457eaf7314ea4b7 Nelson Goering deposited Review of Mailhammer & Vennemann (2019): The Carthaginian North: Semitic Influence on Early Germanic: A Linguistic and Cultural Study in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1747894/ Fri, 30 Jul 2021 02:24:59 -0400 Journal of Historical Linguistics, Volume 11, Issue 2, 357 - 366.

]]> 0 8a1a189d23b7bcc4f67450f739550ac2 Nelson Goering deposited Kaluza's Law and Secondary Stress (final version) in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1747512/ Sun, 25 Jul 2021 02:24:06 -0400 Kaluza’s law is a proposed restriction in the metre of Beowulf against the resolution of light-heavy sequences: words like cyning ‘king’ can only resolve and count as the equivalent of a single heavy syllable under more restricted circumstances than can words such as wudu ‘wood’. There has been debate about how to define these ‘restrict…[Read more]

]]> 0 724a25345ffbb6af4388e3dbab3ab175 Nelson Goering deposited Kaluza's Law and Secondary Stress in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738658/ Wed, 19 May 2021 02:24:05 -0400 Kaluza’s law is a proposed restriction in the metre of Beowulf against the resolution of light-heavy sequences: words like cyning ‘king’ can only resolve and count as the equivalent of a single heavy syllable under more restricted circumstances than can words such as wudu ‘wood’. There has been debate about how to define these ‘restricted…[Read more]

]]> 0 fe705ab8c096e2ff6a1ce7e9d375e54b Nicole Guenther Discenza replied to the topic Old English Forum CFP for MLA 2022 in the discussion Anglo-Saxon / Old English https://hcommons.org/groups/anglo-saxon-old-english/forum/topic/old-english-forum-cfp-for-mla-2022/#post-43626 Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:49:08 -0400 The deadline has been extended to 25 March.

]]> a08bfd401fb3dc537b3688c542c441b1 Nicole Guenther Discenza started the topic Old English Forum CFP for MLA 2022 in the discussion Anglo-Saxon / Old English https://hcommons.org/groups/anglo-saxon-old-english/forum/topic/old-english-forum-cfp-for-mla-2022/ Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:16:08 -0500 The Old English Forum announces these calls for papers for MLA 2022, 6–9 January in Washington, DC.

Session (1) Broken but Wondrous: Finding Hope in Old English Literature
Old English literature is rarely associated with hope – indeed, much of its poetry is littered with the ruins of lost peoples, frozen and desolate landscapes, meditations on…[Read more]

]]> c5a104cba630083418881e811f35c9dc Nelson Goering deposited Review: A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages (2018), by R.D. Fulk in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1725235/ Thu, 28 Jan 2021 02:24:05 -0500 Review of A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages by R. D. Fulk, 2018.

]]> 0 6cd70b16f66ba38e6b9e8ff2ba97575b Nelson Goering deposited The Terrible Bite of Fire: Metre, Sound Change, and Emendation in Beowulf 1122 in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1720302/ Fri, 18 Dec 2020 02:24:04 -0500 Line 1122 of Beowulf represents a problem where the findings of metrics, historical phonology, and the reading of the manuscript are in conflict with one another. I revive and adapt Tolkien's proposal to emend lāðbite līċes līġ ealle forswealg to lāðbite līġes līċ eall forswealg “the cruel bite of fire swallowed up the entire bodies”. This…[Read more]

]]> 0 223f6bdfa32c1ec98427b86f75b0cc18 Nelson Goering deposited Old Saxon unmet, Genesis B 313b ungemet, and unmetrical scribal forms in Germanic alliterative verse in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1718962/ Sat, 05 Dec 2020 02:23:59 -0500 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 restoration receives support from metrics and from the comparison with Old Saxon unmet of the same meaning, and the alteration to ungemet(e), etc., in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 42faa31222a703e4db063d41113ebde2 Nelson Goering deposited Eduard Sievers’ Altgermanisch Metrik 125 years on in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1717711/ Sat, 21 Nov 2020 02:23:56 -0500 Eduard Sievers’ Altgermanische Metrik remains a foundational work for Germanic metrical research, even 125 years after its publication in 1893. His impact on the field may be roughly divided into three broad approaches: 1) the impulse for the typological categorization and labelling of verses; 2) the four-position principle as the basis for a…[Read more]

]]> 0 57eb7938a96901fca5716129f87b8775 Thijs Porck deposited An Old English Love Poem, a Beowulf Summary and a Reference Letter from Eduard Sievers: G. J. P. J. Bolland (1854–1922) as an Aspiring Old Germanicist in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1705454/ Sun, 16 Aug 2020 02:24:58 -0400 This article calls attention to documents relating to the early academic life of G. J. P. J. Bolland (1854–1922). During the late 1870s and early 1880s, Bolland was enthralled by the study of Old Germanic languages and Old English in particular. His endeavours soon caught the eye of Pieter Jacob Cosijn (1854–1922), Professor of Germanic Phi…[Read more]

]]> 0 7c358cdc9890b6131126c478c8e8ecea Alex Woolf deposited CAEDUALLA REX BRETTONUM AND THE PASSING OF THE OLD NORTH in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693778/ Sun, 28 Jun 2020 16:27:19 -0400 This paper attempts to correlate Bede's account of the British king Caedualla, to whom he attributed Edwin's death, with the information provided by Historia Brittonum and the Harleian pedigrees. It is suggested, inter alia, that his identification with Cadwallon ap Cadfan may be in error.

]]> 0 92ca89c65be1f1e93750e5442722c49b Alex Woolf deposited Onuist son of Uurguist: tyrannus carnifex or a David for the Picts? in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693776/ Sun, 28 Jun 2020 16:26:49 -0400 This paper examines the career and reputation of perhaps the longest reigning Pictish king, Onuist son of Urguist, who was a contemporary of Offa of Mercia.

]]> 0 877b33cf7117c36c07b44a6947b3f032 Alex Woolf deposited Dún Nechtain, Fortriu and the Geography of the Picts in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693773/ Sun, 28 Jun 2020 16:25:50 -0400 In the nineteenth century the Pictish kingdom of Fortriu and the site of
the Battle of Nechtansmere were located by scholars in Menteith and
Strathearn and at Dunnichen in Forfarshire respectively. These identifications
have largely gone unchallenged. The purpose of this article is to
review the evidence for these locations and to suggest that…[Read more]

]]> 0 3b350106383ddaba6c472a2fab07dcce James M. Harland deposited Memories of migration? The ‘Anglo-Saxon’ burial costume of the fifth century AD in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1692703/ Mon, 22 Jun 2020 16:28:09 -0400 It is often claimed that the mortuary traditions that appeared in lowland Britain in the fifth century AD are an expression of new forms of ethnic identity, based on the putative memorialisation of a ‘Germanic’ heritage. This article considers the empirical basis for this assertion and evaluates it in the light of previously proposed ethnic con…[Read more]

]]> 0 7c3a7a7edd5fb40be8a3d3e809b4d87e Thijs Porck deposited Reshaping the Germanic Economy of Honour: Gift Giving in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1681861/ Tue, 24 Mar 2020 16:26:07 -0400 An article that contrasts the role of gift giving in Old English poems like Beowulf and The Battle of Maldon to Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.

]]> 0 56ad1de1cea50614dbefcd17a3b19cde Joseph St John created the doc Exile and Chosenness in the Old English Exodus in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1681837/ Tue, 24 Mar 2020 10:46:10 -0400 dc32b3a69ffc962e22c3900571aa0ad0 Eileen Joy deposited The Signs and Location of a Flight (or Return?) of Time: The Old English WONDERS OF THE EAST and the Gujarat Massacre in the group Old English / Early Medieval England https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1673669/ Sun, 29 Dec 2019 16:32:23 -0500 In this essay, I examine two widely divergent instances of what I understand to be a compulsive and racialized-sexualized violence against women whose bodies have been figured as "foreign"/Eastern (and even, as animal and barbaric) threats within collective national bodies: the real case of a massacre in the modern state of Gujarat in southwestern…[Read more]

]]> 0 f6e33d7c387c05e885ac3952bc08b692 Eileen Joy deposited The Old English Seven Sleepers, Eros, and the Unincorporable Infinite of the Human Person in the group Anglo-Saxon / Old English https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642486/ Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:26:05 -0400 Although the ultimate theme of "The Seven Sleepers" can be located in its medieval Christian doctrine—the bodily resurrection is real, and therefore it is in the afterworld where one finally, really “lives,” with shining body and soul together—I would like to argue that, in the Old English version's emphasis on the highly individualized emotion…[Read more]

]]> 0 9f476e22f8d3e6f20ee0f5295a3929ba Eileen Joy deposited On the Hither Side of Time: Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul and the Old English Ruin in the group Anglo-Saxon / Old English https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642481/ Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:25:25 -0400 Through an analysis of Tony Kushner’s 2001 play "Homebody/Kabul" and the Old English "Ruin" poem, this essay explores the tension, anxiety, and isolation inherent in the aesthetic and philosophical enterprises of measuring the distance that separates myth from real being (a project that takes place, I would argue, against Levinas, not just o…[Read more]

]]> 0 b1c2f4c93ae3f2cc9b222135f4f4715d Eileen Joy deposited The Work, or the Agency, of the Nonhuman in Premodern Art in the group Anglo-Saxon / Old English https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642298/ Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:26:36 -0400 An overview of the "state of the field" of critical post/humanist studies that also argues for the important intervention of premodern studies into contemporary post/humanist studies, and which serves as the Introduction (with chapter summaries) to "Fragments for a History of a Vanishing Humanism," eds. Myra Seaman and Eileen A. Joy (Ohio State…[Read more]

]]> 0 9ad33fcf520442ed4e0f0ef94f2bdb10 James M. Harland deposited Memories of Migration? So-called "Anglo-Saxon" Burial Costume of the 5th Century AD in the group Anglo-Saxon / Old English https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1631935/ Wed, 13 Feb 2019 16:25:21 -0500 This is an Accepted Manuscript, for an article forthcoming in Antiquity (2019), and remains subject to pre-publication type-editing and proofing. Please cite as James M. Harland, 'Memories of Migration? So-called "Anglo-Saxon" Burial Costume of the 5th Century AD,' Antiquity 93 (2019). A link to the final publication at Cambridge University Press…[Read more]

]]> 0 af2b5b96afed730a2242700b8332b2a3 Thijs Porck deposited The Leiden University Old English ColloQuest in the group Anglo-Saxon / Old English https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1627629/ Wed, 02 Jan 2019 16:25:21 -0500 The Leiden University Old English ColloQuest is a digital, dynamic edition that adapts to each individual learner to offer an appropriate level of challenge. In particular, the type and frequency of the glosses are determined by diagnostic questions, which allows for effective adaptation to the learning needs of an individual user. As such, each…[Read more]

]]> 2 8527d13512d2000797c33414d6bc704a Thijs Porck deposited Vergrijzing in een Oudengels heldendicht. De rol van oude koningen in de Beowulf in the group Anglo-Saxon / Old English https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1622922/ Sun, 04 Nov 2018 16:39:33 -0500 In this article, I suggest Beowulf should be read as a mirror of princes for elderly kings.

]]> 0 8e9ad281824c16b776f2fe0da82ff7ea Thijs Porck deposited Eald enta geweorc: De Romeinen in vroegmiddeleeuws Engeland (ca. 450-1100) in the group Anglo-Saxon / Old English https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1622919/ Sun, 04 Nov 2018 16:39:02 -0500 A short article about the Nachleben of the Romans and classical antiquity in Anglo-Saxon England.

]]> 0 d823b98b59585adc75d858055755a6e9 Thijs Porck deposited How Cnut became Canute (and how Harthacnut became Airdeconut) in the group Anglo-Saxon / Old English https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1622836/ Sat, 03 Nov 2018 16:26:27 -0400 This article discusses the development of the spelling for the name of Cnut the Great, Viking king of England from 1016 to 1035, from to . The origin of this disyllabic spelling is uncertain and has been attributed to taboo deflection, the simplification of the consonant cluster /kn/ in English and even a pope’s inability to pronounce the name C…[Read more]

]]> 0 1f6cfcc2f15f3702ff60ae88e17d5d33 Thijs Porck deposited Treasures in a Sooty Bag? A Note on Durham Proverb 7 in the group Anglo-Saxon / Old English https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1622833/ Sat, 03 Nov 2018 16:25:55 -0400 This note calls attention to a precursor of the Latin text of Durham Proverb 7 in the ninth-century Collectanea Pseudo-Bedae and, in doing so, sheds some light on the unresolved relationship between the Old English and Latin versions of the Durham Proverbs in general and Durham Proverb 7 in particular.

]]> 0 eb50c1ee481cfef456a33aed4b2800a0 Thijs Porck deposited Two Notes on an Old English Confessional Prayer in Vespasian D. XX in the group Anglo-Saxon / Old English https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1622829/ Sat, 03 Nov 2018 16:25:23 -0400 This note established that an Old English confessional prayer in BL Vespasian D.xx is a close analogue to the Latin text in the Book of Cerne (Cambridge University Library MS L1.1.10). These two text and two other Old English prayers in BL MS Tiberius C.i and the Old English Handbook for the Use of a Confessor may have sprung from a common, Latin…[Read more]

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