Don't you go insulting my pet poem!
Aug. 2nd, 2007 10:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
highlyeccentricI love JStor, can i just say that? Why I didn't think of it yesterday in my grammatical distress, I am unsure.
Willem Helder, "The Engel Dryhtnes in The Dream of the Rood", Modern Philology, v. 73, no. 2 pp 148-50 provides this explanation for the inconsistences, not to mention the cryptic notes, in the Sweet text:
"Beholden Þær engel dryhtnes ealle" can only mean: "All there beheld the angel of the Lord"... many editors and commentators have been reluctant to accept this reading and have felt compelled to explain it away or to emend the text."
and he continues in a footnote: Bruce Dickins and Alan Ross... provide the reading "Behealdan Þær engeldryhta" and... John C Pope... proposes "Beheoldon Þær engeldryhta faela" (p. 223) to replace "the nonsense of the MS" (p. 111 n. 4)
So, my grammatical distress is solved, by confustication with Sweet is solved- what i had was the Pope amendment to the Dickins/Ross amendment, with the actual text in a footnote.
But now i'm annoyed with Mr John C. Pope. Nonsense, indeed!
Do people often go around changing the words of texts? This makes me sad.
Willem Helder, "The Engel Dryhtnes in The Dream of the Rood", Modern Philology, v. 73, no. 2 pp 148-50 provides this explanation for the inconsistences, not to mention the cryptic notes, in the Sweet text:
"Beholden Þær engel dryhtnes ealle" can only mean: "All there beheld the angel of the Lord"... many editors and commentators have been reluctant to accept this reading and have felt compelled to explain it away or to emend the text."
and he continues in a footnote: Bruce Dickins and Alan Ross... provide the reading "Behealdan Þær engeldryhta" and... John C Pope... proposes "Beheoldon Þær engeldryhta faela" (p. 223) to replace "the nonsense of the MS" (p. 111 n. 4)
So, my grammatical distress is solved, by confustication with Sweet is solved- what i had was the Pope amendment to the Dickins/Ross amendment, with the actual text in a footnote.
But now i'm annoyed with Mr John C. Pope. Nonsense, indeed!
Do people often go around changing the words of texts? This makes me sad.