Old-English:
fugelespise, fugeles-pise, fugelespyse, fugelesvise, fugeleswise, fugeleswyse,
Latin (Machine generated):
DELFINION, DELFION,
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Research Literature
Br:
Logeman, Henri.
"Zu Wright-Wülker I, 204-303." Archiv 85 (1890): 316-318.
BW III:
Bierbaumer, Peter.
Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 3. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979.
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.
Dur:
Lindheim, B. von.
Das Durhamer Pflanzenglossar. Beiträge zur englischen Philologie. 35. Bochum-Langendreer: Pöppinghaus, 1941.
WW, Prosp, Br:
Wright, Thomas.
Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies. 2nd ed. by Richard Paul Wülcker. Reprint of the 1884 ed. published by Trübner, London. Vol. 1: Vocabularies. Vol. 2: Indices. New York: Gordon, 1976.
Meritt, Herbert Dean.
"Old English Glosses, Mostly Dry Point." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 60 (1961): 441-450.
MS Brussels, Bibliotheque Royale, 1828-30.
MS Durham, Cathedral, Hunter 100.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Otho E.i.
Voss, Manfred.
"Altenglische Glossen aus MS Brit. Library, Cotton Otho E.i." AAA 22:2 (1996): 179-203.
Read either fugelespise, or fugeleswise. Identification based on L DELPHINION (cf. Dioscorides III,77(84); Berendes 1902,451). Recorded in the DOE, s.v. fugel.
Etymology: A motivation towards 'fugel-' could be related to the form of the flowers, which also motivated ModF pied d'alouette (= model for ModE 'larkspur'; cf. Grigson 1974,s.v.). Because of the general meaning of wīse 'sprout, stalk; Spross, Stängel' I tend to assume an original name fuglespise 'bird-pea, Vogelerbse' (cf. our notes): it could have been motivated by the appearance of Delphinium staphisagria L., lice-bane, Stephanskraut, which is described in Dioscorides "Die wilde Staphis [...] trägt [...] die Samen in grünen Hülsen wie bei der Erbse" (Berendes 1906,451).