Marrubium_vulgare

hare-hune, hwīt

noun, f., n-decl., hapax legomenon

Type: plant

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Reference Last Update: 28.03.2022 13:29

Meaning Last Update: 07.06.2011 09:08

  • A: plant: native
    Marrubium vulgare L., white horehound, Gewöhnlicher Andorn
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Comment Last Update: 03.11.2009 11:59

  • Comment on (A): Marrubium vulgare L., white horehound, Gewöhnlicher Andorn

    Cf. Biggam (1998,170): sometime during the Anglo-Saxon period the unqualified term harhune became applied to more than one plant,[1] or the seafaring term hune was not understood anymore (also recorded in manuscript evidence), and the colour term har- was taken for hære 'hairy', which makes a qualifying colour term necessary (hwite).

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Occurrence Last Update: 03.11.2009 10:51

  • Med 5.8 (Cockayne) (B21.5.8), 3.1 genim hwite harehunan
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Image Last Update: 07.06.2011 09:14

Marrubium vulgare L., white horehound, Gewöhnlicher Andorn

Marrubium_vulgare

Botanical-Information: stylised plate

Fitch, Walter Hood. Illustrations of the British Flora: London: Reeve, 1924.

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Research Literature

Biggam, Carole P.. "Grey' in Old English: an Interdisciplinary Semantic Study. London: Runetree, 1998.
Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.). Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England. 3 vols. with a New Introduction by Charles Singer. Rev. Ed. London: Holland Press, 1961.
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This is especially emphasised by the fact that the occurrences (also cf. s.v. hare-hune, read steallet) have to be dated very late (ca. 1050-1125). They are additions by several hands to the Herbarium Apuleii in MS London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C.iii.