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wergulu
noun,
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hapax legomenon
Type: plant
Last Update: 27.09.2011 09:07
Meanings Last Update: 27.09.2011 09:02
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B: plant: native
? Urtica L., nettle, a species of ~, Brennnessel, eine Art von ~, , -
A: plant: native
?? Malus sylvestris (L.) Mill., crab-apple, Holzapfel
Comments Last Update: 27.09.2011 09:05
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Comment on (A): ?? Malus sylvestris (L.) Mill., crab-apple, Holzapfel
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Comment on (B): ? Urtica L., nettle, a species of ~, Brennnessel, eine Art von ~, ,
Hoops (1889,59) and recent research (Storms 1975, glossary; Cameron 1993,147; Pettit 2001,II,LXXVI,561) tends to identify this plant name with a nettle species: Urtica dioica L., common nettle, Große Brennnessel (native); Urtica urens L., small nettle, Kleine Brennnessel (native). Pettit: "Another reason to identify Wergulu as a stinging nettle may be that its leaves inject poison."
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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.
Hoops, Johannes.
Über die altenglischen Pflanzennamen. Diss. Freiburg im Breisgau: 1889.
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.
[1]:
Nine Herbs Charm: þis is seo wyrt þe wergulu hatte; according to Grattan / Singer the plant name equates wudusūræppel in LA 156/8ff.
This most likely wrong identification is based on Cockayne (1961,II,348) and Grattan/Singer (1952,56 and 151) but results from a rather problematic (cf. Pettit 2001,II, LXXVI) rearrangement of the poem's lines; also cf. Pettit (2001,II,LXXVI,561).