hræfnes-lēac

noun, n., a-decl., 5 occ.

Type: plant

Last Update: 06.07.2011 08:20

Old-English: hrefneslec, reuenesleac, hreafnes leac, hrefnes leac, ræfnes leac, refnes leac,

Latin (Machine generated): SATIRION, SATYRION,

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Reference Last Update: 26.12.2022 18:33

Meaning Last Update: 02.12.2009 17:04

  • A: plant: native Several native species.
    Orchis L., orchid, a species of ~, Knabenkraut, eine Art von ~
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Comment Last Update: 06.07.2011 08:18

  • Comment on (A): Orchis L., orchid, a species of ~, Knabenkraut, eine Art von ~

    Cf. Hunger (1935,167): XVI: SATYRION = Orchis sp.; also Dur 299 and Laud 1290 and the respective notes.

    Etymology: Lit. 'crow leek, Rabenlauch'; there seems no obvious reason for this plant name. But cf. ME crowlek 'crow leek, Krähenlauch', which translates ML SATURION MINOR, cf. Agnus Castus: SATURION MINOR is an herbe þat men clepuþ crowlec (Brodin 1950,202). On the meaning of 'crow leek' cf. MED s.v. 'croue' and NED s.v. 'crow-leek'; on naming motivation cf. Ryden (1989,281ff.).

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Occurrences Last Update: 18.11.2010 06:20

  • Dur, 299 SATYRION hrefneslec
  • HA, XVI, 108/14[1] nsg Hreafnes leac
  • HA, XVI, 108/16[2] asg þe man SATYRION 7 oþrum naman hræfnes[3] leac nemneþ
  • HA, XVI, 12/13 nsg SATYRION ƀ ys refnes[4] leac
  • Laud, 1290 SATIRION reuenesleac
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Etymology Last Update: 06.07.2011 08:20

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Research Literature

BW II: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 2. Bern, Frankfurt am Main, München: Lang, 1976.
BW III: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 3. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979.
Dur: Lindheim, B. von. Das Durhamer Pflanzenglossar. Beiträge zur englischen Philologie. 35. Bochum-Langendreer: Pöppinghaus, 1941.
HA: Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.). "Herbarium Apuleii Platonici." 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. 1. Rev. Ed. by Charles Singer. London: Holland Press, 1961. 1-325.
Laud: Stracke, J. Richard (ed.). The Laud Herbal Glossary. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1974.
Banham, Debby. The Knowledge and Uses of Food Plants in Anglo-Saxon England. Diss. Cambridge University. Index to Theses. 40. Cambridge: 1990.
Berberich, Hugo, ed. Das Herbarium Apuleii nach einer früh-mittelenglischen Fassung. Anglistische Forschungen 5. Nachdruck Amsterdam, 1966. Heidelberg: Winter, 1902.
D'Aronco, Maria Amalia and M. L. Cameron, eds.. The Old English Illustrated Pharmacopoeia: British Library Cotton Vitellius C.III. Early English Manuscripts in Faksimile 27. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger, 1998.
DeVriend, Hubert Jan (ed.). The 'Old English Herbarium' and 'Medicina de Quadrupedibus'. Early English Text Society. Original series 286. London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Hilbelink, A.J.G. (ed.). Cotton MS Vitellius C III of the Herbarium Apuleii. Diss. Amsterdam: 1930.
Howald, Ernestus und Henricus Sigerist (eds.). Corpus Medicorum Latinorum. Bd.4. Antonii Musae de Herba Vettonica Liber. Pseudoapulei Herbarius. Anonymi de Taxone Liber. Sexti Placiti Liber Medicinae ex Animalibus etc. Leipzig: Teubner, 1927.
Hunger, Friedrich Wilhelm Tobias (ed.). The Herbal of Pseudo-Apuleius. From the ninth-century manuscript in the abbey of Monte Cassino [Codex Casinen-sis 97] together with the first printed edition of Jon. Phil. de Lignamine [Editio princeps Romae 1481] both in facsimile, described and annotated by F.W.T. Hunger. Leyden: Brill, 1935.
MS London, British Library, Harley 585.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C iii.
MS London, British Library, Harley 6258b.
MS Durham, Cathedral, Hunter 100.
MS Oxford, Bodleian, Laud Misc. 567.
Rydén, Mats. "Two Old English Names for Orchids'. Edited by Leiv Egil Breivik, Arnoldus Hille and Stig Johansson Oslo: 1989.
Van Arsdall, Anne. Medieval Herbal Remedies. Illustrations by Robby Poore. New York and London: Routledge, 2002.
[1]:

MS H: hræfnes leac.

[2]:

Cf. 108/20: þe we satyrion nemdon 7 eac sume men priapisci hataþ.

[3]:

MS B: ræfnes.

[4]:

MS H: hræfnes; hrefnes B.