printrind, sio þe cymþ of neorxna wonge
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hapax legomenon
Type: plant-part
Last Update: 10.08.2011 07:29
Meaning Last Update: 16.07.2010 09:07
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A: plant-part
-, bark which comes from paradise, Rinde, die aus dem Paradies kommt
Comment Last Update: 09.08.2011 11:59
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Comment on (A): -, bark which comes from paradise, Rinde, die aus dem Paradies kommt
Occurrence Last Update: 15.09.2010 06:45
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Research Literature
BW I:
Bierbaumer, Peter.
Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 1. Bern, Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1975.
Dioscurides:
Berendes, Julius, ed.
Des Pedanios Dioskorides aus Anazarbos Arzneimittellehre in fünf Büchern. Übersetzt und mit Erklärungen versehen. Stuttgart: Enke, 1902.
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.
Bonser, Wilfrid.
The Medical Background of Anglo-Saxon England. London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1963.
Deegan, Marilyn.
A Critical Edition of MS. B.L. Royal 12.D.XVII: Bald's 'Leechbook'. Diss. Univ. of Manchester. 1988.
Freedman, Paul.
Out of the East. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.
Hankins, Freda Richards.
Bald's 'Leechbook' Reconsidered. Diss. Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1993.
Klug, Helmut W..
Kräuter in der deutschsprachigen Dichtung des Mittelalters. Hamburg: Kovac, 2005.
MS London, British Library, Royal 12 D.xvii.
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.
This plant name has not been seriously dealt with in recent research literature (cf. for example Storms 1948,307; Bonser 1963,9; Banham 1990,7). The rather fanciful, defining part of the plant name most likely refers to Aquilaria agallocha Roxb.; agarwood; Adlerholz, a fragrant and very high priced substance (but probably not a bark), which was belived to be harvested on the upper part of the Nile where it floats down from paradise (cf. Freedman 2008,137-138). The medical indications (antidote, against snakebite) of this plant, which Dioscorides (I,21; Berendes 1902,49) only praises for its fragrance, might come from an early confusion with Aloe L., →alwe (cf. Klug 2005,72-73).
Rind, in contrast, would rather refer to Cinnamomi chinensis cortex; cassia; Zimtkassia, or Cinnamomi cortex; cinnamon; Zimtrinde, which is also a plant believed to be harvested in paradise, and according to Dioscorides (I,12; Bernedes 1092,36) it is a powerful antidote.