Helleborus_niger_bd2_tafel_093

ceaster-wyrt

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

Type: plant

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References Last Update: 29.03.2022 04:37

Meanings Last Update: 16.04.2012 18:48

  • A: plant: foreign
    Helleborus niger L., christmas rose, Christrose
  • B: : foreign
    Veratrum album L., white veratrum, Weißer Germer
  • C: plant: native
    Daphne mezereum L., mezereon, Gewöhnlicher Seidelbast
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Comment Last Update: 16.04.2012 18:57

  • Comment on (A): Helleborus niger L., christmas rose, Christrose

    Cockayne (1962,II,375) and BT, ClH, s.v. provide this meaning as secure identification without further comment. The meaing of the plant name is secured by ceaster-, which does no occur in other plant names. A formation of →ceaster-æsc to ceasterwyrt is likely as H. niger is not a tree (cf. →æsc (1)) but a herb and the name -æsc could have been regarded as irrtating. The possibility that ceasterwyrt denotes other plants than H. niger is equally possible, cf. →ceaster-æsc.

    The Dresden gloss HELLEBORUS setrewort (Manitius 1901,434) is not a corrupted ceasterwyrt but belongs to OHG sittirwurz, suterwrz, and MHG zitterwrze (cf. Marzell 2000,2,800f.); also cf. ModE setter-grass, setterwort (Britten/Holland 1886,424).

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Occurrence Last Update: 19.05.2009 16:21

  • LB, 32/1 gsg ceasterwyrte
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Etymology Last Update: 16.04.2012 18:48

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Images Last Update: 16.04.2012 18:48

Helleborus niger L., christmas rose, Christrose

Helleborus_niger_bd2_tafel_093

Botanical-Information: stylised plate

Source: →reference-information

Thomé, Otto Wilhelm. Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. In 4 Mappen ; 531 Tafeln in naturgetreuen Farben mit 668 Pflanzenarten. Leipzip: Teubner, 1938.

Veratrum album L., white veratrum, Weißer Germer

Veratrum_album_bd1_tafel_118
Thomé, Otto Wilhelm. Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. In 4 Mappen ; 531 Tafeln in naturgetreuen Farben mit 668 Pflanzenarten. Leipzip: Teubner, 1938.

Daphne mezereum L., mezereon, Gewöhnlicher Seidelbast

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Thomé, Otto Wilhelm. Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. In 4 Mappen ; 531 Tafeln in naturgetreuen Farben mit 668 Pflanzenarten. Leipzip: Teubner, 1938.

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Research Literature

BT: Bosworth, Joseph. An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Ed. by Thomas Northcote Toller. Reprint 1973. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1882.
BW I: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 1. Bern, Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1975.
ClH: Clark Hall, John Richard. A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. 4th ed. MART 14. Cambridge: University Press, 1960.
DOE: Cameron, Angus, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette di Paolo Healey, et al. (eds.). Dictionary of Old English (A to G). CD-Rom. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies for the Dictionary of Old English Project, 2008.
LB: Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.). "Leech Book." 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. 2. Rev. Ed. by Charles Singer. London: Longman [et. al.], 1961. 1-360.
LB: Leonhardi, Günther. Kleinere angelsächsische Denkmäler I. Bibliothek der ags. Prosa VI. Hamburg: Grand, 1905.
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.
Deegan, Marilyn. A Critical Edition of MS. B.L. Royal 12.D.XVII: Bald's 'Leechbook'. Diss. Univ. of Manchester. 1988.
Hankins, Freda Richards. Bald's 'Leechbook' Reconsidered. Diss. Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1993.
Manitius, Max. "Angelsächsische Glossen in Dresdner Handschriften." Anglia 12 (1901): 428-435.
Marzell, Heinrich. Wörterbuch der deutschen Pflanzennamen. Mit Unterstützung der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Bearb. von Heinrich Marzell. Unter Mitw. von Wilhelm Wissmann. Köln: Parkland, 2000.
MS London, British Library, Royal 12 D.xvii.
Wright, Cyril E. (ed.). Bald's Leechbook. Early English manuscripts in facsimile. 5. Kopenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger, 1955.