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- Title
The Battle of Otterburn (Line 12).
- Authors
Green, Richard Firth
- Abstract
The article analyzes the ballad "The Battle of Otterburn," preserved in the manuscripts BL, MSS. Cotton Cleopatra, C. IV, ff. and Harley 293, ff. 52r-55r, and focuses on the third stanza's description of the arrival of the Earl of Douglas' hunting party in Northumberland. The author discusses the translations of the Old English term "lighted dowyn" in line 12, suggesting that it is the transitive form of a verb meaning "to cause to descend."
- Subjects
BATTLE of Otterburn, The (Poem); ENGLISH ballads; OLD English manuscripts; HUNTING in literature; OLD English verbs; OLD English language -- Translating; OLD English terms &; phrases
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2013, Vol 60, Issue 4, p513
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1093/notesj/gjt173