SOME NOTES ON THE LIBER SCINTILLA RUM AND ITS OLD ENGLISH GLOSS (B.M., Ms. Royal 7 C iv)

Derolez, René

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“…The gloss to the Penitential of Pseudo-Theodore (in Brussels KB MS 8558-63) is early eleventh century (Ker 1957: 8, no. 10; see also Schlutter 1909: 512-514), like the gloss to Defensor's Liber scintillarum in MS BL Royal 7 C.iv (see, for example, Verdonck 1976;Derolez 1970;Bremmer 2008: 80-81). The five psalter glosses in which forms of aefþunca occur are tenth-or eleventh-century: Royal (c. 950), Salisbury (c. 975), Lambeth (c. 1025), Vitellius (c. 1050), and Arundel (c. 1075); see Roberts (2017: 40).…”

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Beowulf 501b and the authority of Old English poetical manuscripts

Pascual¹

2021

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In his Old English grammar, A. Campbell put forward his theory of Old English accentuation, according to which disyllabic words like Bēowulf and ǣniġ receive a half-stress only if made trisyllabic by the addition of an inflection (as in Bēowulfes or ǣniġra), provided the middle syllable is heavy. A. J. Bliss tacitly rejected Campbell’s analysis when he postulated the existence of metrical type 3B2, a rare rhythmical pattern in which trisyllabic forms like Bēowulfes and ǣniġra must exceptionally be assumed to lose their otherwise conventional half-stress. Bliss based his analysis on the evidence afforded by four readings from the text of Beowulf: ll. 501b, 932b, 949b, and 1830b. Even though Bliss expressed reservations about his own analysis, he still preferred it to the alternative possibility of emending these four exceptional verses (a possibility that he did not even consider in his book). Non-metrical arguments in support of the emendation of at least one of these verses (1830b), however, had been advanced well before The metre of Beowulf was first published. Since then, ll. 932b and 949b have also been emended on grounds other than metre. This article offers new linguistic reasons for the emendation of l. 501b, the one remaining reading for which no alternative explanation had yet been proposed. It concludes that Bliss was unnecessarily cautious in his treatment of these four aberrant verses, and that, as Kenneth Sisam memorably stated in 1946, conjectural emendation is, and still remains, a useful tool for the study of Old English poetical manuscripts.

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Prosody in Medieval English and Norse

Goering

2023

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This book reconstructs aspects of linguistic prosody from the medieval records of two closely related Germanic languages, English and Norse. Evidence is drawn from a series of case studies on vowel reductions and the metrics of alliterative verse in early Old English, early Middle English, and Old Norse. Taken together, these diverse sources of data indicate a notable continuity in the internal rhythmic structure of words in these languages. Specifically, an enduring role is played by the bimoraic trochee, a prosodic unit which serves as the basis for the poetic phenomenon of resolution in English and Norse verse. This continuity explains a wide range of phenomena – high-vowel deletion in Old English, Kaluza's law in Beowulf, reductions of certain unstressed vowels in the ‘AB’ dialect of early Middle English, poetic resolution in Laȝamon’s Brut, the ‘syncope periods’ in Norse runic inscriptions, Craigie's law in skaldic poetry, Sievers' law in Proto-Germanic, and more – as all having been shaped by this pertinacious prosodic building block. These developments are contextualised both within broader linguistic typological perspectives and against the philological details of medieval metrics and sources. Attention is also given to the role of language contact not only as a potential driver of prosodic change, but as a source of prosodic continuity.

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A British Academy Monograph

Goering

2023

Prosody in Medieval English and Norse

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SOME NOTES ON THE LIBER SCINTILLA RUM AND ITS OLD ENGLISH GLOSS (B.M., Ms. Royal 7 C iv)

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Beowulf 501b and the authority of Old English poetical manuscripts

Beowulf 501b and the authority of Old English poetical manuscripts

Prosody in Medieval English and Norse

A British Academy Monograph

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