Synonyms for ‘Man, Warrior’ in Laȝamon’s "Brut" and Old English Alliterative Poetry

NRU Higher School of Economics , 2017. No. WP BRP 22/LS/2017.

Volkonskaya M. A.

Laȝamon’s Brut is well-known for being a transitional stage between Old English and Middle English alliterative poetry. On the one hand, it preserves some traces of the Old English poetic tradition, such as, for instance, certain poetic words. On the other hand, even those traces that seem to be similar to Old English undergo significant, though subtle, changes. To trace these changes, this paper explores Middle English predominantly poetic lexemes for ‘man, warrior’ in the Caligula manuscript of the Brut, namely, Middle English simplexes hæleð, kempe, scalk, seg, rink, as well as their Old English counterparts hæleð, cempa, scealc, secg, rinc in the verse section of the DOE Corpus.

Keywords: синонимы, древнеанглийский, synonyms, Middle English, Old English, среднеанглийский, Laȝamon, Layamon, Lawman, Brut, alliterative verse, alliterative poetry, Лаямон, Брут, аллитерационный стих, аллитерационная поэзия

Publication based on the results of: Синонимы в среднеанглийской и древнеанглийской аллитерационной поэзии: группа обозначений мужчины, воина (2016)