Selections from Early Middle English, 1130-1250. Part 2: Notes
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Selections from Early Middle English, 1130-1250. Part 2: Notes
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500
#Phonology:# ... þat (9), at (5), -masse (3) [(5) -masse]
_æ_, wæs (9), þæt (once)
[_æ misprinted as bold instead of italic_]
_æ_ in bæron 63, 66 [_œ_]
... #eo#, umlaut of #i#
[_#i# misprinted as italic instead of bold_]
#ā# + #w# gives _au_
[_“au” misprinted as plain (non-italic)_]
For #w# ... þumbes 56 (#þūma#) has inorganic _b_ [inorganic _m_]
In wurtscipe 93 &c., wart 122, _t_ has displaced #þ#
[_“wart 122” added by author_]
Most of the adjective inflections ... onne 63
[_“onne” misprinted as bold_]
Strong verbs .. I c. warth, uuard, ward, wærd, wart
[_“wart” added by author_]
_pt. pl._ usually ends in -en
[_“-en” misprinted as italic_]
V. helden, heolden, hengen: iafen 44, bræcon 62 [braecon]
Weak verbs ... gæde 58 is _pt. s. subj._
[_final . invisible_]
Noteworthy among the Anomala are myhtes 2 _pt. s._;
muhten _pt. pl._; cunnen 1 _pr. pl._; durste _pt. s._
[_final . missing in first “pt. s.”, invisible in second_]
#Dialect:# ... representation by _a_ of #ǣ{2}# before _r_ [æ{2}]
9. ... exceptions being Octab{us} sc͞i
[_superfluous comma after “sc͞i” deleted by author_]
20. #þe mihte#: comp. 8/81.
[_Author’s Corrigenda:_
Dr. Bradley’s restoration in M. L. Review, xii. 73, þa þestreden
sona þas landes, appears to me certain.]
95. #fram#, by. [_“by” printed in bold_]
97. ... B-T. quotes, ‘mid eallon ðá[m] þingon ðe ðǽr fyrmest
tólæg,’ [ðær]
201. ... ‘in an dæis wile,’ within the space of one day.
[_corrected by author from “hwile”_]
IV. CHARTER OF HENRY THE SECOND
#Manuscript:# Harleian Charter 111 B. 49, British Museum. The upper half
contains a version in Latin, excepting the passage ‘sacha . . . frimþa,’
which is in English; the names of six witnesses are appended. On the
lower half is the present text; on the back, ‘carta reḡ. H. ii de sacha
& socne.’ The document is in a French record hand, and the writer was
evidently little versed in the insular script. He uses both þ and th, ƿ
and w.
#Facsimile:# Keller, plate xiii.
#Editions:# Hickes, G., Linguarum Vett. Septentrionalium Thesaurus,
i. p. xvi; Dugdale, W., Monasticon, i. 111; Birch, W. de Gray,
Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, New Series, xi. 312;
Stratmann, F. H., Anglia, vii. 220; Earle, J., A Handbook to the Land
Charters, 346 (with the Latin); Kluge, F., Mittelenglisches Lesebuch, 5.
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