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- Title
Your <italic>eigning hert</italic>: A Hapax Legomenon in <italic>Cursor Mundi</italic>, Line 28339.
- Authors
Barootes, B. S. W.
- Abstract
The Middle English word <italic>eigning</italic> appears in a single line, in a single extant manuscript. After 125 years, it remains the sole undefined word from the glossary accompanying the published text of the <italic>Cursor Mundi</italic>. This paper provides an Anglo-Norman etymology for the word, one which makes a surprising connexion with secular romances, the very genre that the <italic>Cursor</italic>-poet and other penitential writers seek to condemn.
- Subjects
MANUSCRIPTS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NONBOOK materials; ETYMOLOGY; HISTORICAL lexicology
- Publication
Neophilologus, 2018, Vol 102, Issue 2, p279
- ISSN
0028-2677
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11061-017-9548-2