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An Alternative Interpretation of the Background of the Frontipiece to Walker’s Appeal Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Lauren Ginn
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Xenos and Xenia Within and Beyond the Phaeacian Allusive Frame of Paradise Lost Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Timothy Windsor
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Thomas Watson, Thomas Kyd, and the Re-Use of Ovid Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Brian Vickers
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Dyed Cloth in the London Thornton Manuscript Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Marisa Libbon
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Meter and Matter in Faerie Queene II.ii.2 Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 James H Runsdorf
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William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat: Some Further Light on Gregory Stremer Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-04-23 Ben Parsons
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Possible Sources for Thomas Day’s Depictions of the Enslaved Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-04-23 Terry L Meyers
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An echo of manilius’s astronomica in abraham cowley’s davideis Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-04-05 Wesley Garey
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The meaning of Old English ađsweord (Beowulf, line 2064a) Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Alfred Bammesberger
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Manuscripts of Nicholas Trevet’s Annales Sex Regum Anglie and Continuatio Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Trevor Russell Smith
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‘Gathered’ in Cranmer’s Translation of a Prayer of Chrysostom Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Drew Nathaniel Keane
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Three 17th-Century Letters Clarify the Textual History of Scipio Lentulus’ History of the Waldensians Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Regula Hohl Trillini,Alessandro Lattanzi
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The Frontispiece Epigraphs of Thomas Randolph’s Poems (1640): Martial, Horace, and Sidronius Hosschius Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-26 Marlin E Blaine
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Elizabeth Bronfen, Serial Shakespeare: An Infinite Variety of Appropriations in American TV Drama Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-16 John Drakakis
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Titus Andronicus: Peele, Shakespeare, Peele Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-16 Thomas Merriam
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Elijah Fenton’s Copy of Spenser’s Works (1679) Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-12 Colin Burrow
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Was Revd Thomas Nichols the Gentleman’s Magazine’s ‘T.N.’, 1821–1828? Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-12 Emily Lorraine de Montluzin
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The Sources of Order and Disorder 8.369–382 Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Raphael Magarik
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‘Our Soul is Like a Kite’: A Poem Misattributed to Oscar Wilde Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Rob Marland
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T. S. Eliot’s Critique of Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan: Modernism and Bibliographical Errors Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Gustavo A Rodríguez Martín
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‘As the Starling Said’: Quoting Laurence Sterne in Jane austen’s Mansfield Park Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Normandin S.
Seeking with Henry Crawford to enter the park at Sotherton, Maria Bertram tells the man with whom she will later commit adultery: ‘unluckily that iron gate, that ha-ha, give me a feeling of restraint and hardship. I cannot get out, as the starling said’.11 Maria is quoting Sterne’s Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy.22 John Wiltshire, a recent editor of Mansfield Park, discusses the abruptness
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On the ‘Unmentionable Observations’ of Robert Hooke Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Lisgarten J, Marks J.
The 2016 article by Michael Witty, entitled ‘Hooke’s Gravel was Struvite’11 is essentially a comparison of two microscopic observations, ancient and modern. The images of the two crystal types involved were obtained by what are described as ‘unmentionable’ observations and experiments. Robert Hooke, in his Micrographia, discloses investigations into substances collected from 17th-century urinals.22
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Katharine Tynan as the Source of Lionel Johnson ‘Barstool’ Myth in Ezra Pound’s Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920) Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-26 Parker S.
Scholars of both fin-de-siecle and modernist literature will be familiar with the portrait of the ‘1890 s generation’ found in Ezra Pound’s semi-autobiographical poem Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920). Among the narratives recounted by ‘Monsieur Verog’ in the poem (a character based on the poet and librarian Victor Plarr), the story of poet and critic Lionel Johnson falling off a barstool to his death is
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Vita & Selma: A Note on the Reception of Selma Lagerlӧf in the English-Speaking World Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-26 Mebius E.
As Björn Sundmark notes ‘there are separate biographies or critical studies of the reception of Selma Lagerlöf’s work from most of the major language areas—Russian, German, Italian, French…but surprisingly little about her reception in the English-speaking world.’11 It has been suggested that Lagerlöf’s reception in the English-speaking world was hampered by contemporary reviewers’ criticism of her
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Bromborough, Brunanburh, and Dingesmere Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Deakin M.
During the last two decades or so Wirral has emerged as the most favoured location for the site of the battle of Brunanburh fought in 937 c.e.11 Support for the identification, however, remains far from being universally accepted and several other locations have been advanced.22 It is perhaps fair to say that the case for Wirral rests primarily on philological grounds and specifically the suggestion
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Greek Anthology 7.311 and Three English Epigrams on Niobe Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-19 Blaine M.
In his commentary on John Donne’s epigram on Niobe, Robin Robbins notes that that grief-stricken mother was a ‘favourite subject since ancient times’ and cites a range of poems on her from the Greek Anthology that were ‘often translated and imitated in the Renaissance’. Robbins lists as examples the anthology’s poems 7.549 and 16.129–133, but he rightly does not identify a specific model for Donne’s
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An Allusion to ‘Cricket-a-Wicket’ In Nicholas Breton’s ‘A Description of Jelousie’ (1600) Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-19 Lindskog Whiteley C, Whiteley G.
A poem of fourteen stanzas written in rhyme royal, ‘A Description of Jelousie’ is one of two shorter poems appended to Nicholas Breton’s (1555–1626) Pasquils mistresse, or The worthie and unworthie woman (1600).11 One of Breton's series of verse satires revolving around the figure of ‘Pasquil’, taken together, the three poems collected in Pasquils mistresse constitute a triptych of early modern discourse
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Identification of ‘Knighton Sally’ in Keats’s Copy of The Anatomy of Melancholy Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-18 Thomson H.
John Keats’s annotated copy of Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy contains a side-mark in the margin to a reference from Heliodorus: ‘for he thought it unpossible for any man living to see her and contain himself’. This is followed by: ‘The very fame of beauty will fetch them to it many miles off (such an attractive power this loadstone hath), and they will seem but short’ (Part. 3. Sec. 2. Mem
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A Note Clarifying the Date of the Last Will and Testament of Richard FitzAlan, earl of Arundel (d. 1397) Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-12 Barootes B.
In the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry for the Appellant lord, Richard FitzAlan (1346–1397), fourth earl of Arundel and ninth earl of Surrey, the biographer asserts that the earl’s will, later proved at the court of his brother, Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury, was dated 4 March 1393 (emphasis mine).11 There is, however, some contention around this date due to what is likely
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Supernaculum: Nashe’s Dog Latin for a Germanic Drinking Custom Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Vozar T.
In his popular satirical pamphlet Pierce Penilesse His Supplication to the Divell, published five times between 1592 and 1595, Thomas Nashe decries the foreign drinking customs that had taken over England: ‘now, he is no body that cannot drinke super nagulum, carouse the Hunters hoop, quaffe upsey freze crosse, with healthes, gloves, mumpes, frolickes, and a thousand such dominiering inventions’.11
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‘Odium’ in John Gauden’s Political and Religious Pamphlets Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Jackson J.
Writing in defence of episcopacy and monarchism, John Gauden (1605–1662), bishop of Worcester,11 used the word odium an exceptional number of times in three of his pamphlets. Standing out against the word’s relative scarcity, his religious pamphlets Hieraspistes (1653) and Hiera Dakrya (1659) mention odium a total of thirteen times while the Royalist piece Eikon Basilike (1649), which he may have ghost-written
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In Love and War: Gogol’s Taras Bulba and Gissing’s Veranilda Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-07 Ue T.
The Victorian writer George Gissing was an omnivorous reader. In a letter to his sister Ellen on 31 May [1887], Gissing itemizes his extensive reading over the past fortnight:
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Jane Ashley/Langley/Delahay (D.1611), Resident of Paris Garden, Southwark Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-03 Satterley R.
For many years I have been studying the life and library of Robert Ashley (1565–1641), the founder of the library at Middle Temple, one of the four Inns of Court. Although Robert bequeathed a collection of over 5,000 titles to establish a library at the Inn, none of his personal papers survive there, having been discarded or dispersed at an unknown point in time (there are no records of dispersal in
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Allusions to Horace and Homer on the Frontispiece to Coryats Crudities (1611) Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-03 Din-Kariuki N.
Critics writing on Coryats Crudities (1611), an account of Thomas Coryate’s (c. 1577–1617) travels within continental Europe, often attend to its striking frontispiece, engraved by William Hole.11 It includes a portrait of Coryate in an oval frame placed on a plinth and surrounded by three women representing the kingdoms of ‘Gallia, Germania, Italia’, a series of scenes from Coryate’s travels, and
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LawIne 17: A Doubtful Emendation Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-03 Bammesberger A.
The manuscript evidence agrees on the text of LawIne 17, but the precise meaning of the law has provoked some discussion. The passage was punctuated by Liebermann as follows: Se ðe forstolen flæsc findeð 7 gedyrneð, gif he dear, he mot mid aðe gecyðan, þæt he hit age; se ðe hit ofspyreð he ah ðæt meldfeoh.11 In a recent paper, Anya Adair gave the following literal rendering of the text22: ‘He who finds
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A Document About Touring Players: A New Copy and A Reply Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Steggle M.
On 16 July 1616, Sir William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke and recently appointed Lord Chamberlain, issued an order warning town authorities against the players Thomas Swinnerton and Martin Slaughter, who were each touring the country with a company which claimed to be Queen Anne’s Men. His order also called for action against William Perry, Gilbert Reason, Charles Marshall, Humphrey Jeffes, and William
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The Function of Vocat in Late Medieval Multilingual Documents Produced in England Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Roig-Marín A.
In English administrative rolls produced in Medieval Latin, the influx of vernacular vocabulary is well-known and documented. In this text type, the French definite article (typically, le(s), lez, or la) has often been discussed as a marker indicating a code-switch into the vernacular.11 Less attention has, nevertheless, been paid to the Latin past participle vocat., -a, -e, -ur, -us ‘called/is called’
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On the Dating of the Norse Siege of Chester Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Firth M.
There is only one account of the Norse siege of Chester, found in Fragmentary Annals of Ireland (FAI).11FAI does not provide a date for the siege (it rarely provides dates at all) but does place it within the reign of Æthelflæd in Mercia (c. 886–918), and prior to the death of her husband Æthelred. The latter sets a terminus ante quem of 911. Otherwise, the annal for the siege gives few other clear
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The Expression to Fanny About Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Briggs K.
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) records the expression to ‘fanny around (or about): to mess around, waste time; to act in an unproductive or dithering manner’ only from 1969.11 The etymology is given as ‘< fanny, n.1, “female genitals”’, and we are asked to compare the vulgarisms to fuck about, and to arse around.
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Anti-Spenserian Amaranth In Milton’s Lycidas Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Nabais Freitas G.
A particularly elegiac moment in Milton’s mournful Lycidas can be found when his ‘uncouth swain’ movingly implores Alpheus (the ‘Sicilian muse’) to raise himself from the ground and compel a number of radiant flowers to chastise themselves in memory of his dead friend.11 In a line which can be easily overlooked within Milton’s wide-reaching botanical list is the desire that Alpheus might ‘Bid amaranthus
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Pearl, Line 761: “Yor Worlde Wete” Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-29 Hill T.
At one point in the dialogue between the Pearl maiden and the Dreamer, the Pearl maiden speaks of her death and her acceptance into the ranks of the ‘queens’ who follow the Lamb in the city of the New Jerusalem, the kingdom of heaven.‘My makele3 Lambe þat al may bete’,Quod scho, ‘my dere destyné,Me ches to hys make, alþa3 vnmeteSumtyme semed þat assemblé.When I wente fro yor worlde wete,He calde me
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Shifting Heads to Solve a Crux in Comedy of Errors Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-09 Atkins C.
Adriana’s speech in Comedy of Errors, II.i.109–15, reads as follows11:I see the Iewell best enameledWill loose his beautie: yet the gold bides stillThat others touch, and often touching will,Where gold and no man that hath a name,By falshood and corruption doth it shame:Since that my beautie cannot please his eie,Ile weepe (what’s left away) and weeping die.
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Identification of Thomas Bretnor’s Adversary in his Prognostication For 1614 Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-09 Bienias B.
Francis R. Johnson called Thomas Bretnor (1570/1–1618) and Edward Gresham (1565–1613) ‘two of the most noted, and likewise the most learned, among the almanac-makers and astrologers of the early years of King James’s reign.’11 The opinion on Bretnor was later expanded by J. D. North, who named him ‘a dyed-in-the-wool Copernican Almanac maker’,22 and Bernard Capp, who deemed Bretnor ‘innovative on matters
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Erratum to: A Half-Watt Light for Photography in Ezra Pound’s ‘Medallion’ (1920) Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-07
Nicoletta Asciuto, Notes & Queries (2021), 00(0), pp. 1–4; https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjab124.
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Unnoted Sources in Oscar Wilde’s Vera Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Marland R.
Oscar Wilde’s first acting edition of his play Vera; or, The Nihilists, printed in 1880, has the play in four acts. Wilde drafted an additional prologue in March 1882.11 In Volume XI, Plays 4 in the Oxford English Texts edition of The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde,22 Josephine Guy incorporates in her attempted reconstruction of the 1883 performance text of Vera a manuscript fragment (referred to as
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A Welsh Translator’s Reply to Edward Thomas Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-19 Brooks M.
Some recent critical work on Edward Thomas (1878–1917), the Anglo-Welsh essayist and poet, has sought to discuss his influence from Welsh culture and his contribution to the depiction of Wales in early twentieth-century English writing.11 An uncollected letter from the papyrologist and literary scholar H. Idris Bell (1879–1967), himself of Anglo-Welsh ancestry, shows that not all Welsh writers approved
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On ‘Srumfredevi’ in Shelley’s ‘The Triumph of Life’ Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Lacey A.
Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘The Triumph of Life’, written in late May to early July 1822 and first published by Mary Shelley in Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London, 1824), contains, in Mary’s text, a blank space in line 260:
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The Faerie Queene’s Spelling in Context Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Lenthe V.
The first thing most modern readers notice about The Faerie Queene is its idiosyncratic spelling. Even in modern editions, Book One begins as follows:Lo I the man, whose Muse whylome did maske,As time her taught in lowly Shepheards weeds,Am now enforst a farre vnfitter taske,For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds.11
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The Troublers of Israel (1767): A Methodist Opera Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Mcinelly B.
This note argues that The Troublers of Israel, anonymously published in 1767 and routinely included in bibliographies of the anti-Methodist literature produced during the eighteenth-century, actually advocates Methodist doctrines and does so in a form not typical of Methodist apologia or devotional writings.11
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Corrigendum to: Chardin and Vesalius’ Inhuman Interiorities Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-29
John Mulligan, Chardin and Vesalius’ Inhuman Interiorities, Notes & Queries (2020); doi:10.1093/notesj/gjaa141.
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‘On Poesy or Art’: A Poisoned Chalice? Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-29 Allen B.
During the early nineteenth century, between 1808 and 1819, Samuel Taylor Coleridge delivered a number of lectures on literature, the brilliance of which has continued to attract scholarly attention. One of these lectures, now the most famous, was published posthumously as ‘On Poesy or Art’. The text first appears in Coleridge’s Literary Remains (1836), which is edited by his nephew, Henry Nelson Coleridge
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The Case for ‘Savours’ IN ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, IV.i.48 Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-29 Castanedo F.
Q1’s rendering of a passage in A Midsummer Night’s Dream—Oberon’s summary of how Titania (while still onstage caressing Bottom) had begged her husband for reconciliation—reads thus:
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William Wycherley’s The Gentleman Dancing-Master (1672): The First Black Teacher on the Early Modern Stage? Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-24 Davies O.
Criticism on William Wycherley’s The Gentleman Dancing-Master (1672) has, to my knowledge, not noticed Don Diego’s ‘Little Blackamoor’ (otherwise named in the play text as either Pedro or Sanchez),11 who is instructed by his master to ‘teach’ the foolish Monsieur de Paris to move like a Spaniard. Such a lack of discussion seems surprising, since the ‘Little Blackamoor’ appears to be the first black
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The Etymology of Freawaru’s Name Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Neidorf L.
Frēawaru, the name of Hrothgar’s daughter in Beowulf, has long been recognized as an onomastic peculiarity. The name is unattested outside of the poem and it does not alliterate with any of the other Scylding names. Kemp Malone consequently posited that Frēawaru is ‘rather a title than a name’ and argued that the genuine name of this character is Hrūt, which corresponds to the name of Hrolf Kraki’s
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From Zero to Zillion: Etymological Notes on Some Number Terms Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Grzega J.
The following contribution presents a few fresh etymological observations on some number terms (in ascending order).11
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Henry Goldingham, Servant of Robert Dudley, Composer of Masques, and Author of ‘The Garden Plot’ Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-18 Risaluddin S.
Henry Goldingham is well known as one of the composers for Robert Dudley’s Kenilworth pageant in 1575, at which he also performed,11 and of a masque performed in 1578 as part of ‘The ioyfull Receyuing of the Queens most excellent Maiestie into hir Highnesse Citie of NORWICH’. He also wrote a poem, ‘The Garden Plot’, known only in manuscript until it was printed in 1825 for the Roxburghe Club, with
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Francis Williams and the Question of Translation Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-16 Lebeau E.
Born in Jamaica in 1702, Francis Williams (d. 1770) came from one of the only free black families of means in Jamaica. He was a free black man of learning and education. This note uncovers details about his often-misunderstood background and will focus upon the one poem that has been officially attributed to Williams, ‘Ode to George Haldane’—a Latin panegyric, (mis) translated by Edward Long. The second
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Fucfast, Flemings Daughter, and Sowters Dowghter: Some Sixteenth-Century Insults Notes and Queries (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-16 Briggs K, McClure P.
The study of the history of taboo words and of coarse language is hampered by the obvious fact that written evidence can be very sparse. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) entry for the verb fuck ‘have sexual intercourse (with)’, revised in 2008, cites only three instances between the late fifteenth century and the mid-sixteenth century, each of them from satirical verses using ‘low’ speech.11 The