Later Additions
There was even room for an interlinear gloss to be added much later,
probably
in the 16th century. This has a certain interest, because the annotator
has glossed the Anglo-Saxon in Latin.
In line 8, the glossator has correctly glossed OE ongiotan by intellegere, 'understand'. | |
In line 9, OE cwęden is glossed by dixerunt, 'they said'; | |
and OE yldran is glossed by seniores, 'elders'. |
What does this suggest about the knowledge of and interest in Old English at the date of the annotations?
The glossator has altered the Early West Saxon
ie spelling for a Late West Saxon y. |
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You can tell it is not original because the shape of his y is different. | |||
You can see his erasures underneath the new letters. |
He has also altered the punctuation and word division: see the next section.
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