Christ and Satan: “Healing” line 7

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Notes

¹A digital facsimile of the manuscript, with transcript and commentary, is now available on CD-ROM (Muir, ed.); images only may be found online at http://image.ox.ac.uk/show?collection=bodleian&manuscript=msjunius11. Accessed 24/05/06.

²Ker, 407, no. 334. He dates the three hands of the main text to s. xiⁱ, as does Gneuss, no. 640.

³It is not always clear whether some alterations—especially erasures—have been made by the first scribe, the Corrector, or someone else; but since additions make Corrector's preoccupation with orthography, especially the representation of vowels, quite clear, it is reasonable to attribute erasures of this sort to him as well.

⁴Moreover, some of the alterations to 216 may be the scribe's.

⁵ Christ and Satan has been edited surprisingly often in modern times. The most recent editions are those of Finnegan and Sleeth—the latter of which includes an edition on microfiche, together with an appendix noting differences between his text and Finnegan's (115 – 32). However, Krapp contains the most widely used and accessible text, and Clubb is still useful, particularly for its detailed study of parallel passages in other Old English poems.

⁶In the manuscript, p. 213, line 4.

¹²Clubb, ed., 46.

⁷Grein, ed., Bibliothek, I:129.

⁸Grein, “Zur Textkritik”, 419.

⁹Wülker, ed., II:522.

¹⁰Holthausen, 232.

¹¹Bright, 127.

¹³Statements about word distributions are based on online searches of the most recent release of Healey, ed.

¹⁴See Bosworth and Toller, s.v. ymb-líþan.

¹⁵See Campbell, §749.

¹⁶Krapp, ed., 231.

¹⁷Holthausen, 232.

¹⁸Bright, 129. Cosijn, 21, suggested that dene was itself a corruption of dryhten.

¹⁹Clubb, 46.

²³Text from Krapp and Dobbie, eds. The corresponding word in the Carmen de aue phoenice is massam, “lump” or “ball”: Brandt and Laubmann, eds., 135 – 47 at line 99.

²⁰The confusion of wynn and p was extremely common, and occurs in the other direction at line 78a (swearcade for spearcade).

²¹Zupitza, ed., 315.

²²See Goossens, ed., nos. 541, 576 and 1657.

²⁴Lindsay, ed., II:lib. XIII.v.2.

²⁵Ibid., lib. XIII.vii. In the next book (XIV.ii), Isidore describes Ocean surrounding the outer parts of the world: on the relation of which to this passage, see Hill.

²⁶Grein, Bibliothek, I:129.

²⁷Cosijn, 21.

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Emily V. Thornbury

Emily V. Thornbury is at Churchill College, Cambridge, UK.