þistel, unbrād

noun, m., a-decl., 2 occ.

Type: plant

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Reference Last Update: 18.10.2022 22:25

Meaning Last Update: 25.11.2008 18:42

  • A: plant
    ? Cirsium ferox (L.) DC., -, Hohe Bergdistel
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Comment Last Update: 04.10.2010 11:29

  • Comment on (A): ? Cirsium ferox (L.) DC., -, Hohe Bergdistel

    SCOLIMBOS (cf. André 1985,s.v. SCOLYMOS) denotes several plants, but the defining 'not broad, nicht breit' seems to point towards smæl-þistel and HA CLIII where C. ferox is described, it is a plant of the Italian, French and Spanish alps.

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Occurrences Last Update: 19.03.2008 15:00

  • Br,WW, 301,22 SCOLIMBOS se umbrada þistel
  • Dur, 312 SCOLIMBOS se unbrade thistel
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Research Literature

Br: Logeman, Henri. "Zu Wright-Wülker I, 204-303." Archiv 85 (1890): 316-318.
BW III: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 3. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979.
Dur: Lindheim, B. von. Das Durhamer Pflanzenglossar. Beiträge zur englischen Philologie. 35. Bochum-Langendreer: Pöppinghaus, 1941.
HA: Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.). "Herbarium Apuleii Platonici." 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. 1. Rev. Ed. by Charles Singer. London: Holland Press, 1961. 1-325.
WW, Prosp, Br: Wright, Thomas. Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies. 2nd ed. by Richard Paul Wülcker. Reprint of the 1884 ed. published by Trübner, London. Vol. 1: Vocabularies. Vol. 2: Indices. New York: Gordon, 1976.
André, Jacques. Les noms de plantes dans la Rome antique. Paris: Société d'édition 'les belles lettres', 1985.
DeVriend, Hubert Jan (ed.). The 'Old English Herbarium' and 'Medicina de Quadrupedibus'. Early English Text Society. Original series 286. London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1984.
MS Brussels, Bibliotheque Royale, 1828-30.
MS Durham, Cathedral, Hunter 100.