printhwīt-corn
noun,
m.,
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hapax legomenon
Type: plant-related
Last Update: 07.07.2011 18:49
Meaning Last Update: 16.12.2009 16:52
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A: plant-related
? -, white corn (description of manna), weißes Korn (Beschreibung von Manna)
Comment Last Update: 16.12.2009 16:39
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Comment on (A): ? -, white corn (description of manna), weißes Korn (Beschreibung von Manna)
Occurrence Last Update: 13.08.2009 06:26
Research Literature
BW III:
Bierbaumer, Peter.
Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 3. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979.
Li, Ru (= Mt, Mk, Lk, Jn):
Skeat, Walter William.
The Four Gospels in Anglo-Saxon, Northumbrian, and Old Mercian Versions. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1871.
Meritt, Herbert Dean.
Fact and Lore about Old English words. Stanford studies in language and literature. 13. New York: AMS P., 1954.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Nero D.iv..
Zohary, Michael.
Pflanzen der Bibel. 3rd unaltered ed. Stuttgart: Calwer, 1985.
[1]:
According to Moldenke (1952,126) the manna of the bible was a lichen specis (probably Lecanora affinis L., crab"s eye or a similar plant). Zohary (1995,143) refutes this thesis on the basis that this lichen species was never found in the Sinai and accounts for another explanation, which states that manna is the sweet, white excrement of certain insects like Trabulina mannifera or Najacoccus serpentina. This substance is still used by bedouins as ersatz sugar or honey.
[2]:
It is a marginal gloss, another comment on the margin reads: ... sonuuald. for huætte cuom of heofnum 7 feoll on moisi miþ his folce on þam more þer he uæs. Jn(Ru) has MANNAM without a gloss.
On the concept of manna[1] being round and white cf. Meritt (1954,142).