Selections from Early Middle English, 1130-1250. Part 2: Notes
General
Selections from Early Middle English, 1130-1250. Part 2: Notes
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500
5/11 (note) = II. (Saint Godric’s Hymns)
25/241 (note) = VI. (The Proverbs of Alfred)
94/9, 96/57 (notes) = _present selection_
178/89 (note) = XXI. (The Bestiary)
_Errata_
#Phonology:# ... _eo_ in heoreð 58 (if from #herian#)
[_missing close parenthesis_]
#w# is lost ... bilæuen 39, biuoren 95 [39 biuoren]
(2) =Of O.= ... The present forms of #willan#
[_misprinted as plain (non-bold)_]
... Initial #hl# is reduced to _l_
[_“l” misprinted as bold instead of italic_]
#hn# to _n_, nap 275
[_“#hn# to _n_” added by author_]
Adjectives ... enne (ende) 211 [enne(ende)]
The personal pronouns ... mine _neut._ 22 (7) [22(7)]
Four-fifths of the infinitives ... I c. _s._ 3. bigon 221, [221;]
V. _s._ 3. biheold 246, 288 [_period after “s.” invisible_]
(2) =Of O.= ... man _s. d._ 205, [205.]
The personal pronouns ... #ilca# is ilke _s. n. m._ 237, 275,
_s. d. m._ [275 _s. d. m._]
al _a._ 93. [al.]
#Metre:# ... To sechen on folde[;] ænne brædne fæld’
[_close quote missing_]
comp. ‘Þa andswarede eorles þare [comp,]
37. ... one MS. of W [W.]
72-76. ... Grimm, Teutonic Mythology, 1. 122 ff [122ff]
123. If #hele# represents OE. #hælo#
[_text unchanged: error for “hǣlo”?_]
175. ... because of your unpopularity. [unpopularity,]
263. ... Beowulf, 257 [Beowulf 257]
XV. ORM
#Manuscript:# Junius 1, Bodleian Library, Oxford: an oblong folio,
written in double columns on 118 leaves of parchment varying
considerably in size, the largest being 508 × 200 mm.; about 1210 A.D.,
and an autograph, but corrected by a second and third hand. See further
Holt, i. p. lxxvi.
#Facsimiles:# Skeat, W. W., Twelve Facsimiles, plate iv. Palaeographical
Society; Second Series, plate 133. Napier, A. S., Notes on the
Orthography of the Ormulum, Oxford, 1893, also in History of the Holy
Rood-tree, E. E. T. S., O. S. 103.
#Editions:# White, R. M., Oxford, 1852. Holt, R., 2 vols., Oxford, 1878.
Extracts in Mätzner, Sweet’s First Middle English Primer, 48-81, Emerson
and other Readers.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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