Abstract:AElfric's Lives of Saints contains two texts that he partly adapted from the Old English translation of Boethius's De consolatione Philosophiae: Lives of Saints 1 (Nativitas Domini) and Lives of Saints 17 (De Auguriis). Although AElfric closely followed the language as well as the substance of his source material when writing these two adaptations, he made a number of linguistic changes including morphological, syntactical and lexical ones. In this paper, I focus on the lexical changes that he made in order to… Show more
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