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1-8 rimed inter bedd pt BJÖRKMAN boght brede inf brest CFGT close ē comp Cursor Cursor Mundi Daui dede dere dialect don p. p. Dright dun adv EILERS Etym faand fere for-pi forbede gan p. p. groups 1-8 rimed i-mutation KALUZA ledd lede OE leode lengthened in open loanwords mare mede mett mistrun moght MORSB OAngl oblique OE ¹ OE ² OE beodan OE settan onan ONorth open syllable Orrm OSc sér p. p. OE p. p. of OE prep preterite pron rede resun sare self-rimes short shortened slain p. p. soght spelling stan Strandberg strong verbs stund subj syllables riming tald pt tell inf thoght unstressed syllables vowel wald wede WGerm word wroght yald yede ΟΕ ¹ ΟΕ ² ОЕ
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Page 57 - Interpretation zugrunde gelegt wird. sin autem mors eius fuerit subsecuta reddet animam pro anima / oculum pro oculo dentem pro dente manum pro manu pedem pro pede / adustionem pro adustione vulnus pro vulnere livorem pro livore...
Page ix - The Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland, London 1873 [•=- Transactions of the Philological Society 1870-72].
Page iii - H. HUPE. Cursor Studies, and Criticism on the Dialects of its MSS.
Page xiv - For the common at understand. Frankis rimes here I redd, Comunlik in ilk[a] sted: Mast es it wroght for frankis man. Quat is for him na frankis can? 20 Of Ingland the nacion — Es Inglis man...
Page iii - Reimuntersuchung über die Qualität der betonten langen E-Vokale bei Robert of Brunne.
Page 81 - STRANDBERO, op. cit. p. 81, says, 'fuhl, pt., pp certainly had a short a and the weak-stressed auxiliary wald, pt. presumably had a short a, cfr. the form wollde in Orrm. » The same opinion is advanced by F.
Page 57 - He sal pan yeild lijf for lijf, Ei for ei, and toth for toht, Hand for hand, lok pis be soth...
Page 42 - OE. vowel in hi.'h]>o was shortened somewhat late before the consonantgroup -A/ (or -ht from the 13th century). The adj. heh had, of course, a conservative influence. The result of this late shortening was a close e, very similar in sound to t. Cf. LUICK, Stud. p. 196. Hight was the typically northern form, and height the southern (NED).
Page xvi - In many cases it has been expressly pointed out that the rimes can very well be explained in more than one way.
Page xvi - On account of the comparatively small number of incorrect rimes, we must state that the author of Сursor Mundi was a fairly good rimer.