Kyng Alisaunder, Issue 237G. V. Smithers Early English Text Society, 1957 |
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Alexander Alexander's Alixandre Ancrene Riwle attested author of KA author wrote battle calque century common antecedent Confessio Amantis conj contained corrector's corresponding corruption Cursor Mundi Darius dialectal do(n Early English emendation English Ideophones epic Epistola Ermoldus Nigellus Essex-London evidence examples extant MSS F. J. Furnivall French gode grete gynne Havelok HdeP headpieces honde ibid ideo Ideophones idiom implies intr ironic metaphors Kentish king knights Latin latter legend London Lydgate's make(n means medieval metrically Middle English noun occurs one's oneself original otherwise recorded parallel passage phrase Poems poet prep probably pron re-ed reading reference refl Rendering represented rhyme Roman de Thèbes scribe sense Solinus spelling subj suggests sunt Troilus and Criseyde verb W. W. Skeat word