The Old English Translation of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum in its Historical and Cultural Context

Lemke, Andreas

doi:10.17875/gup2015-787

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“… 11 According to Lemke (2015:18), ‘based on the relative stylistic coherence of the translation, the vernacular version of Bede's HE – or at least the “body”, disregarding the preface and the chapter headings – is now being regarded as the work of one anonymous (possibly Mercian?) translator’. …”

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Old English verbs of saying and verb-initial order

Cichosz¹

2016

English Language and Linguistics

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OE verb-initial main clauses are associated with a number of stylistic functions and they are said to co-occur with specific verb types, including verbs of saying (Mitchell 1985; Petrova 2006; Ohkado 2005). It has also been observed that the general frequency of the V-1 pattern in OE is text-specific and that the structure is exceptionally well represented in Bede (Calle-Martín & Miranda-García 2010; Ohkado 2000; Mitchell 1985). Latin influence has been suggested as a possible explanation for the high frequency of V-1 in this text, but this hypothesis has never been tested (Ohkado 2000). The aim of this study is to analyse V-1 main clauses containing verbs of saying in order to determine the motivation for the use of the pattern in OE and the possibility of foreign influence on the Bede translation. The analysis shows that OE V-1 clauses with verbs of saying are to a great extent lexically recurrent formulas used for turn-taking in conversations as well as marking transition in a story, and that their frequent use in the OE Bede is only partly influenced by the source text.

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Old English verbs of saying and verb-initial order

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2016

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Some Facts from the History of the Franks: Migration, Language, and Relations with Britain

Gvelesiani

2024

Studies in the History of Law and Justice

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Verbal morphology in the Old English gloss to the Durham Collectar

Cuesta

Langmuir

2019

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This article examines the verbal morphology of the Old English interlinear gloss to the Durham Collectar, attributed by almost universal consensus to Aldred of Chester-le-Street, whose earlier gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels has recently been the object of scholarly attention (Cole 2014; Fernández Cuesta & Pons-Sanz 2016, Gameson et al. 2017). This article analyses -s/-th variation in the present indicative and imperative forms in relation to their syntactic context, in particular subject type and subject-verb adjacency, in order to assess whether the Northern Subject Rule detected by Cole (2014) in Lindisfarne was also operative in Aldred’s later gloss. By means of a quantitative analysis, we find that the first constraint does not significantly affect -s/-ð variation in the gloss and that there is insufficient context for the second. Additionally, it is argued that adjacency is a problematic variable in this text-type. We also demonstrate that there is a higher percentage of second person singular -st and -ð in the Collectar than in Lindisfarne and discuss the possible influence of standard West Saxon on the later gloss.

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The Old English Translation of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum in its Historical and Cultural Context

Cited by 5 publications

References 27 publications

Old English verbs of saying and verb-initial order

Old English verbs of saying and verb-initial order

Some Facts from the History of the Franks: Migration, Language, and Relations with Britain

Verbal morphology in the Old English gloss to the Durham Collectar

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