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stune
noun,
f.,
n-decl.,
hapax legomenon
Type: plant
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Meanings Last Update: 20.09.2010 08:06
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A: plant: native
? Cardamine hirsuta L., hairy bitter-cress, Viermänniges Schaumkraut -
B: plant: native
? Capsella bursa-pastoris (L.) Medik., shepherd's purse, Gewöhnliches Hirtentäschel -
C: plant: native "Doubtfully native" (Clapham 1965,147).
? Thlaspi arvense L., field penny-cress, Acker-Hellerkraut
Comment Last Update: 20.09.2010 08:32
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Comment on (A): ? Cardamine hirsuta L., hairy bitter-cress, Viermänniges Schaumkraut
Images Last Update: 25.08.2011 07:04
? Cardamine hirsuta L., hairy bitter-cress, Viermänniges Schaumkraut |
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Botanical-Information: stylised plate Source: →reference-information
Fitch, Walter Hood.
Illustrations of the British Flora: London: Reeve, 1924.
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? Capsella bursa-pastoris (L.) Medik., shepherd's purse, Gewöhnliches Hirtentäschel |
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Botanical-Information: stylised plate Source: →reference-information
Fitch, Walter Hood.
Illustrations of the British Flora: London: Reeve, 1924.
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? Thlaspi arvense L., field penny-cress, Acker-Hellerkraut |
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Botanical-Information: stylised plate Source: →reference-information
Kops, Jan.
Flora Batava. 1. Deel. Amsterdam: J. C. Sepp en Zoon, 1800.
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Research Literature
BW II:
Bierbaumer, Peter.
Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 2. Bern, Frankfurt am Main, München: Lang, 1976.
LA, Lor:
Grattan, John Henry Grafton, and Charles Singer.
Anglo-Saxon Magic and Medicine. London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1952.
LA:
Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.).
"[Lacnunga] Recipies." In: Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England. Being a Collection of Documents, for the Most Part never before Printed, Illustrating the History of Sience in this Country before the Norman Conquest. Vol. 3. Rev. Ed. by Charles Singer. London: Holland Press, 1961. 2-81.
LB:
Leonhardi, Günther.
Kleinere angelsächsische Denkmäler I. Bibliothek der ags. Prosa VI. Hamburg: Grand, 1905.
Bonser, Wilfrid.
The Medical Background of Anglo-Saxon England. London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1963.
Cameron, Malcolm Lawrence.
Anglo-Saxon Medicine. Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England. 7. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Grein, Christian-Wilhelm-Michael (ed.).
Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie. Göttingen: Wigand, 1864.
Hankins, Freda Richards.
Bald's 'Leechbook' Reconsidered. Diss. Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1993.
MS London, British Library, Harley 585.
Pettit, Edward, (ed. and trans.).
Anglo-Saxon Remedies, Charms and Prayers from British Library MS Harley 585: the 'Lacnunga'. Vol. I: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Appendices. Vol. II: Commentary and Bibliography. Mellen Critical Editions and Translations. 6A and 6B. Lewiston, Queenston and Lampeter: Mellen, 2001.
Storms, Godfrid (ed.).
Anglo-Saxon Magic. Reprint of the 1948 ed. published by M. Nijhoff, The Hague. Norwood, Pa: Norwood Editions, 1975.
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Cf. Nine Herbs Charm; Cont.: stune h[a]tte þeos wyrt, heo on stane geweox; stond[eþ] heo wiþ attre, stunaþ heo wærce; Cockayne (1961,III,32/22) reads stime, but does not rule out the reading variant stune; judging from the context stune is more plausible. Also cf. BT, s.v. stīme.
The interpretation is based on Hoops (1889,62f), who stated that LA 156/8ff seems to list the same plants as the Nine Herbs Charm; stune can therefore be equated with →lambes-cærse. In her glossary of OE medical terms Hankins (1992,242) translates stune with watercress without giving a more detailed explanation; Pettit (2001,LXXVI,548-51) points out that it could have been a tabu name.