Re: RV: Old English
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 29, 2000, 1:03 |
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yl-ruil wrote:
> There were several quite different Anglian dialects. Presumably you mean
> Northumbrian here.
If Northumbrian is a subset of Anglian, then yes. My textbook seems to
suggest as much:
Caedmon presumably composed in Anglian (Northumbrian) and four
Anglian versions have come down to us. The earliest of these
(and the earliest of all surviving copies) appears at the top
of the last page of the Moore MS of the _Historia Ecclesiastica_/
Cassidy and Ringler, _Bright's Old English Grammar and
Reader, p. 129.
Sally
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