Published by De Gruyter

Volume 130 Issue 4

December 2012

Issue of Anglia

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December 12, 2012

Dialect and Word Choice in Old English: Two Case Studies with Old English Perception Verbs

Thomas Klein

Page range: 471-498

Abstract

This article examines the textual distribution of two sets of Old English verbs, hrepian versus hrīnan (‘to touch’), and frēdan versus fēlan (‘to feel’). In both pairs, their etymologies reveal cognates that are widely distributed in Germanic languages, and their range of meanings in Old English show a close synonymy, suggesting that they fulfilled similar semantic needs within larger semantic fields. However, while their distribution in Late West Saxon texts and elsewhere seem to conform to a Winchester (or Ælfrician) vs. non-Winchester pattern, the presence of frēdan in Early West Saxon is a marked variation from the norm. The article thus suggests that the distribution of these verb pairs reflects genuine dialectal variation (rather than deliberately selected linguistic forms), thereby giving evidence of speech divisions that vary from traditionally recognized dialectal areas. The behavior of these verbs may also illustrate the need for a more nuanced description of the nature of the ‘Winchester vocabulary’.

December 12, 2012

Riddling and Reading: Iconicity and Logogriphs in Exeter Book Riddles 23 and 45

Winfried Rudolf

Page range: 499-525

Abstract

Literary riddles have enjoyed a reputation as valuable teaching tools of grammar, logic and rhetoric since Classical Antiquity. Alongside the typical ambiguity which a good riddle strives to generate through polysemy and metaphor, medieval riddles create further semantic uncertainty through the peculiarities of their handwritten form, such as the use of rare graphemes and inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation, or word separation. This paper traces logogriphs, iconicity, orthographic and syntactic ambiguities in selected Old English riddles and their relevance for the riddling and reading techniques of their contemporary users. It presents an iconic clue for Exeter Book Riddle 23 and a new spectrum of solutions for Riddle 45, revealed here by means of grammatical, logogriphical, and etymological evidence. The latter is used as a case in point to demonstrate the didactic value of riddles in teaching medieval typology and exegesis. It suggests a palaeographical, etymological and, above all, theological reassessment of the riddles written in Old English.

December 12, 2012

Zum Status des Onset-Prinzips im Altenglischen

Marc Pierce

Page range: 526-532

December 12, 2012

The Sequence <Bęæu> in The Baconsthorpe Runic Inscription

Alfred Bammesberger

Page range: 533-536

December 12, 2012

Alexander and Dindimus (Ms Bodley 264), Line 537: a New Reading and Interpretation

Omar Khalaf

Page range: 537-540

December 12, 2012

Edgar W. Schneider, English Around the World

Andrea Sand

Page range: 541-544

December 12, 2012

Exploring Second-Language Varieties Of English And Learner Englishes: Bridging A Paradigm Gap

Andrea Sand

Page range: 544-547

December 12, 2012

Marco Schilk. Structural Nativization in Indian English Lexicogrammar.

Vijaya John Kohli

Page range: 547-551

December 12, 2012

Ilka Mindt. Adjective Complementation. An Empirical Study of Adjectives Followed by that-Clauses

Juhani Rudanko

Page range: 551-554

December 12, 2012

The Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World

Ulrike Krischke

Page range: 554-557

December 12, 2012

Matthias Eitelmann. Beowulfes Beorh: Das altenglische Beowulf-Epos als kultureller Gedächtnisspeicher.

John Insley

Page range: 557-564

December 12, 2012

Roy M. Liuzza. Anglo-Saxon Prognostics: An Edition and Translation of Texts from London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius A.iii.

Immo Warntjes

Page range: 564-566

December 12, 2012

Dana Oswald. Monsters, Gender, and Sexuality in Medieval English Literature. Gender in the Middle Ages 5

Sarah Salih

Page range: 566-568

December 12, 2012

Kathy Cawsey. Twentieth-Century Chaucer Criticism: Reading Audiences

Renate Bauer

Page range: 568-573

December 12, 2012

Jeremy Black. London: A History. Lancaster: Carnegie

Jürgen Kamm

Page range: 574-577

December 12, 2012

A History of British Drama: Genres – Developments – Model Interpretations

Elzbieta Baraniecka

Page range: 577-580

December 12, 2012

Sarah Säckel. Jokes Don’t Jump from Nowhere: Comic Dialogism in P.G. Wodehouse’s ‘Jeeves and Wooster’ Novels

Catherine Belsey

Page range: 580-583

December 12, 2012

Birgit Däwes. Ground Zero Fiction. History, Memory, and Representation in the American 9/11 Novel

Katharina Donn

Page range: 583-585

December 12, 2012

The Gordon Riots. Politics, Culture and Insurrection in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain

Pascal Fischer

Page range: 586-588

December 12, 2012

Spatial Representations of British Identities

Ina Habermann

Page range: 589-592

December 12, 2012

The Literature of Melancholia: Early Modern to Postmodern

Isabel Karremann

Page range: 592-597

December 12, 2012

Birgit Capelle. Time in American and East Asian Thinking: A Comparative Study of Temporality in American Transcendentalism, Pragmatism, and (Zen) Buddhist Thought

Ulfried Reichardt

Page range: 597-601

December 12, 2012

Global Realignments and the Canadian Nation in the Third Millennium

Cecile Sandten

Page range: 601-604

December 12, 2012

Ute Berns. Science, Politics, and Friendship in the Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Page range: 604-607

December 12, 2012

EINGEGANGENE SCHRIFTEN

Page range: 608-610

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