mōr-secg

noun, m., ja-decl., hapax legomenon

Type: plant

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Reference Last Update: 22.11.2022 14:30

Meaning Last Update: 16.10.2008 10:07

  • A: plant
    -, sedge, Schilfgras
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Occurrence Last Update: 13.04.2010 10:43

  • PD, 51/15[1] dsg morsecge
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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.
PD: Löweneck, Max (ed.). Peri Didaxeon. Erlanger Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 12. Erlangen: Junge, 1896.
Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.). "Peri Didaxeon." 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. 3. Rev. Ed. by Charles Singer. London: Holland Press, 1961. 82-143.
Sanborn, Linda (ed.). An Edition of British Library MS. Harley 6258B: Peri Didaxeon. Diss. Ottawa: University of Ottawa, 1983.
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Cont.: Do hyne on wearme huse and on beorht and bedde hys bed mid morsecge oppan þara eorþa; L text (Löweneck 1896,50/141): IN CUBICULO CALIDO ET STIPTICO ET MEDIOCRITER LUCIDO PARA EIS LOCUM, ET LECTUS EORUM AD TERRAM FIAT, NON PENSILIS.