eolh-secg

Old-English: eolugsecg, eolxsegc, illucseg, ilugseg, ilugsegg,

Latin (Machine generated): PAPILLUS, PAPILLUUM, PAPILUUS,

• →secg;

• A: plant: native
  ? -, Carex L., sedge, a species of ~, Segge, eine Art von ~
• B: plant: native
  ? Eryngium maritimum L., sea-holly, See-Mannstreu

• Comment on (A): ? -, Carex L., sedge, a species of ~, Segge, eine Art von ~

  The lemmata are probably corrupt forms of PAPYRUS, wich is frequently glossed by names for reed-species (cf. →dy̅þ-hamor, →ēarixe, →risc. The determinans -secg also refers to this kind of plant.

• Comment on (B): ? Eryngium maritimum L., sea-holly, See-Mannstreu

  Cockayne (1961,iii,324) and Hoops (1889,26) base their identification on the Rune Poem where eolxsecg is the name of the rune x: "die Meerdistel hat ihren Platz am häufigsten im Sumpfe; sie wächst im Wasser, verwundet grimmig, brennt blutig jeden Mann, der sie irgend angreift" (Hoops, v.41-44). If Pheifer (n.781) is right with his assumption that the first part of the compund is eolug-, ilug-, etc. and also is identical with "eoletes (? for eoleges) in Beowulf 224, meaning 'water'", we have a form that is similar to LG merrusch, 'sea-rush, Meerbinse' (Marzell 2000,2,317).

  An identification of the first part as eolh- 'elk, Elch' can be ruled out because of the forms eolug-, ilug-, especially as 'Elk, Elch' occurs in Ep-Erf and in Cp as OE elch. Another indication that the glossator of the Corpus Glossary does not associate the lemma of his model with 'Elk, Elch' is that the respective Cp gloss has the form wiolucscel 'whelk, Purpurschnecke' for iolugsecg.[1]