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Studies in the Diction of Layamon's Brut

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Henry Cecil Wyld
Henry Cecil Wyld*
Affiliation:
Merton College, Oxford
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Abstract

[Continuation of the work published in LANG. 6.1-24 (1930). References to the Brut are to volume, page, and line of Madden's edition.]

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 9 , Issue 1-Part1 , March 1933 , pp. 47 - 71
Copyright
Copyright © 1933 Linguistic Society of America

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1 Unless, indeed, the sense be ‘of her noble father’. Compare I.141.12 and many other passages for the word as adjective. Madden takes æeÐelene in the above passage as meaning ‘state, dignity’.