By Douglas Moffat
The 1st serious version of 1 of the earliest representations of the body-and-soul subject within the heart a long time, which, strangely, survives in additional than one replica and is accordingly of specific relevance to the examine of the transmission of texts; dialogue of manuscripts, language, prosody and constitution.
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The latter pair, sawl and gst, seems to describe an entity that can exist separately from other beings and separately from the body. The former group, hige, ferhð, (h)reðer, mod, sefa, though perhaps designating purely incorporeal entities, may be viewed as bound to a larger entity and incapable of independent existence. I think this divergence corroborates the findings of Godden in his 'Anglo-Saxons on the Mind' (1985). Godden sees two traditions, classical and vernacular, at work in OE prose and verse.
There is no punctuation or capitalization at the corresponding place in E. 84 of V, but such an admission places all such evidence on shaky ground. Accent Marks The precise significance of accent marks in OE MSS has not been determined, but a variety of uses has been posited (Scragg 1971). They most often occur over vowels of short, common words, and usually this vowel is etymologically long (Krapp 1932; Scragg 1971). ' The use of accents to indicate stress is usually considered to be an eleventh-century feature, but Scragg believes that such usage does occur in Homily IV of The Vercelli Book (1971, p.
E's nales (OEG §369). In this instance may be a spelling feature only. , towon E20 (beside tohwan V20), reðre V163. Insertion of unetymological h in tohleoþode E108, and geah þe E73, is probably a late feature. (o) doubling of/d/after a long vowel before /r/ in medder E53, may be lWS (OEG §453). , /ks/from/sk/, in huxlicum V14, is probably lWS (OEG §440). (q) double /ll/ from /lr/ in selle E75 (OEG §:484). (r) /t/ for /q/ in 3s. liget V104, and sprecat V132, may be a late phonological development (OEG §735(b)).