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.
Banham, Debby.
The Knowledge and Uses of Food Plants in Anglo-Saxon England. Diss. Cambridge University. Index to Theses. 40. Cambridge: 1990.
Britten, James, and Robert Holland.
A Dictionary of English Plant-Names. London: Trübner, 1886.
Loewe, Richard.
Germanische Pflanzennamen. Germanische Bibliothek. Untersuchungen und Texte. 4. Heidelberg: Winter, 1913.
MS London, British Library, Royal 12 D.xvii.
Olds, Barbara M..
The Anglo-Saxon Leechbook III: A Critical Edition and Translation. Diss. Univ. of Denver. 1985.
Pritzel, Georg und Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Jessen.
Die deutschen Volksnamen der Pflanzen. Neudr. der Ausg.Hannover 1882. Amsterdam: Schippers, 1967.
Storms, Godfrid (ed.).
Anglo-Saxon Magic. Reprint of the 1948 ed. published by M. Nijhoff, The Hague. Norwood, Pa: Norwood Editions, 1975.
Wright, Cyril E. (ed.).
Bald's Leechbook. Early English manuscripts in facsimile. 5. Kopenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger, 1955.
Cf. →heorot-berie; the identification is based on the ModE (buckthorn, hart's thorn; cf. Britten / Holland 1886,605) and G (Hirschdorn; Pritzel / Jessen 1882,329) plant names; Pollington (2000,127) additionally suggests Crataegus oxyacantha L, hawthorn, Weißdorn.
Etymology: Because of the parallel formation of both German and English names Loewe (1916,51) suggests that the name 'hart's thorn, Hirschdorn(strauch)' (also cf. →brembel) has its origins on the European continent. It is a loan transformation of L SPINA CERVALIS (= R. cathartica).