.... This chapter reassesses the phenomenon of high-vowel deletion in late prehistoric Old English, arguing that the high vowels *i and *u are retained when part of a bimoraic trochee, and are deleted otherwise. This explains why in the plural of the word...

.... The phenomenon of resolution in the early Old English poem Beowulf – the ability of two syllables, the first of which is light (with a single mora), to act as the metrical equivalent of a single heavy syllable – has been much debated, in part because sometimes this equivalence...

... addressing the uses of the term wealh in Old English and especially in the Laws of Ine, while the other explores the influence of Latin on the development of Old English spelling. The first case study argues that the term wealh in early Old English...

... terms but drew on a more classical vocabulary, investing words with the specific connotations of the underlying terms for which they were substitutes. Words that carry such specific meanings are identified by using unofficial Medieval Latin translations of official documents in Old English, law tracts...

...This chapter re-examines the role of the Irish in the origins of the Old English alphabet. There are many theories about the Old English alphabet's origins. These include those contained in Karl Luick's Historische Grammatik and E. Sievers and K. Brunner's Altenglische...

...Chapter 1 is dedicated to the early distribution of the relics of St Margaret/Marina, the early versions of her passio (Greek, Latin, and Old English), and their interrelations. It also discusses the proper names and the place names found in her legend: of Margaret/Marina herself...

... introductory chapter presents key concepts in the metrical structure of alliterative verse as found in the Old English standard metre, Norse fornyrðislag and dróttkvǽtt, and the Middle English poetry of the ‘alliterative revival’. Attention is given to how metrical norms can...

... with a palaeontological analogy, this introductory chapter introduces the background of prosodic reconstruction from written sources. An outline is provided of the languages examined in this book: Old English, Middle English, and Old Norse. The introduction concludes with a description of the structure of the book...

...This chapter examines study in Britain of Old English during the twentieth century. It explains that the field of Old English, the nature of the language and the corpus of literature, was essentially discovered and defined during the course of the nineteenth century, principally by scholars...

... voices can be. It concludes with a case study of words meaning ‘rich’ and ‘poor’ in Old and early Middle English, concentrating on the vocabulary of the manuscript Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 343. Old English Middle English language contact etymology semantics 12th century The Middle Ages...

... leader Whitgar Saxon leader Widukind Deeds of the Saxons Wight Isle of Hampshire Wlencing Saxon leader Battle of Brunanburh poem Boethius Old English Boethius Æthelstan Athelstan king of England Edmund I king of England Sheppey Isle of Kent Constantine II king of Scotland Olaf Guthfrithson...