Research Literature
BW I:
Bierbaumer, Peter.
Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 1. Bern, Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1975.
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.
Britten, James, and Robert Holland.
A Dictionary of English Plant-Names. London: Trübner, 1886.
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.
Jordan, Richard.
Die altenglischen Säugetiernamen. Anglistische Forschungen 12. Nachdruck der ausg. 1903. Amsterdam: Swets [u.] Zeitlinger, 1967.
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.
Our identification follows Cockayne (1962,II,381, and BT, s.v.) and is based on the equation eh = eoh, i.e. 'horse-heoloþe'; cf. the Angl. eh (a flattening of eoh) 'horse, Pferd' (cf. Jordan 1967,96). In the LB ehheoloþe stands next to →hind-heoloþe (hind, 'hind, Hirschkuh') therefore assuming an animal name is most logical. Cf. OE →hors-elene and ME horshele; also cf. Britten / Holland (1886,269): horseheele, horseheale.
BTS (s.v.), ClH (s.v.), and Deegan (1988,393) regard the lemma as a spelling variant of →hēah-heoloþe.