m. = masculine. ms., mp., etc. = masc. sing., masc. plur., etc.
#Ma# = the poem of the Battle of Maldon, in #Gr#, also in #Br#, #Kl# or
Sweet’s Anglo-Saxon Reader, Oxford.
Mdf = Altenglisches Flurnamenbuch, by H. Middendorff, Halle, 1902. [See
Preface.]
#Men# = the Menologium, at the end of #Chr#.
#Met# = the Metres of Boethius; v. #Bo#.
MF = Festschrift für L. Morsbach (Studien zur Eng. Philologie, vol. 50),
Halle, 1913.
MFH = Homilies in MF, ed. Max Förster.
MH = An Old English Martyrology, ed. G. Herzfeld (EETS), London, 1900.
See also #Shr#.
_MHG._ = Middle High German. [[Listing added by transcriber]]
Mk = the Gospel of St Mark; v. G and NG. (MkL = Lindisfarne MS; MkR =
Rushworth MS of St Mark; v. LG, RG.)
MLA = Publications of the Modern Language Association of America,
Baltimore.
MLN = Modern Language Notes, Baltimore, 1886-1914.
#Mod# = the poem ‘Bi Manna Mōd,’ in #Gr#.
MP = Modern Philology, Chicago, 1903-1914.
Mt = the Gospel of St Matthew; v. G and NG. (MtL = Lindisfarne MS; MtR =
Rushworth MS of St Matthew; v. LG, RG.)
n. = nominative, _or_ neuter, _or_ note. (np., nap., etc. = nom. plural,
nom. and acc. plur., etc.)
N = Northumbrian.
#Nar# = Narratiunculae, ed. O. Cockayne, London, 1861.
NC = Contributions to Old English Lexicography by A. Napier, in the
Philological Society’s Transactions for 1903-1906, London (mostly late
texts).
NED = the New English Dictionary, ed. Sir J. A. H. Murray and others,
Oxford, 1888-1915. (See Preface, and Note 1.)
neg. = negative.
NG = the Northumbrian Gospels, contained in Skeat’s edition (v. G, LG,
RG).
#Nic# = the Gospel of Nicodemus, in #Hept#; or in MLA 13·456-541. (The
references to passages are always to the latter edition.)
NR = The Legend of the Cross (Rood-tree), ed. A. S. Napier, EETS,
London, 1894.
obl. = oblique.
occl. = occasional, occasionally.
OEG = Old English Glosses, ed. A. Napier (Anecdota Oxoniensia), Oxford,
1900 (1).
OET = The Oldest English Texts, ed. H. Sweet, EETS, 1885 (1).
_OF._ = Old French. [[Rare, and always written OFr. in text]]
_OHG._ = Old High German.
_ON._ = Old Norse.
_OS._ = Old Saxon.
p. = page, _or_ plural.
#Pa# = the poem of the Panther, in #Gr#.
#Part# = the poem of the Partridge, in #Gr#.
#Ph# = the poem of the Phoenix, in #Gr# or BR.
pl. = plural.
#PPs# = the Paris Psalter, ed. B. Thorpe, London, 1835. The prose
portion (Psalms 1-50) also ed. Bright and Ramsay, Belles Lettres Series,
Boston, 1907, and the remainder (verse portion) in #Gr#.
#Ps# = any one or more of the Anglo-Saxon Psalters. [NB. In the
numbering of the Psalms, the Authorised Version is usually one ahead
of the MSS.] v. A, B, C, E, J, L, R, S and VPs; also Hy.
[[The occasional form #Pss# was retained. It may be either an error
for #Ps# or short for “several Psalters”. In the one OED reference,
two Psalters are quoted.]]
PST = Philological Society’s Transactions (v. also LV and NC).
QF = Mone, Quellen u. Forschungen zur Geschichte der teutschen Lit. u.
Sprache, Aachen und Leipzig, 1830.
RB = der Benedictinregel, ed. A. Schröer, Bibl. der Ags. Prosa, vol. 2,
Cassel, 1885-8 (3).
RBL = the Anglo-Saxon and Latin Rule of St Benet (Interlinear Glosses),
ed. H. Logeman, EETS, London, 1888.
#Rd# = The Riddles of the Exeter Book, in #Gr#, or ed. F. Tupper Junr.,
Boston, 1910 (1).
RG = the Rushworth Gospels, in Skeat’s ed. of the Anglo-Saxon Gospels
(v. G). Mt (all), Mk 1-2^15 and Jn 18^1-3 are in a Mercian dialect, and
are usually known as R^1; the rest (R^2) is in a Northumbrian dialect
(v. also LG). Glossary to R^1 by Ernst Schulte, Bonn, 1904; to R^2 by U.
Lindelöf, Helsingfors, 1897.
#Rim# = the Riming Poem, in #Gr#
[[Listing added by transcriber. The Riming Poem is included in Grein
along with many other texts from its original source, the Exeter MS.]]
#Rood# = the poem ‘Dream of the Rood,’ in #Gr#.
#RPs# = der Regius-Psalter, ed. F. Roeder (Studien in Eng. Philologie,
vol. 18), Halle, 1904. (RHy = the Hymns in the same vol.)
RSL = Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, London.
#Ruin# = the poem of the Ruin, in #Gr#.
#Run# = the Rune-poem, in #Gr#.
s. = strong; also = singular. sv. = strong verb. swv. = strong-weak
verb.
#Sat# = the poem ‘Christ and Satan,’ in #Gr#.
sb. = substantive.
#Sc# = Defensor’s Liber Scintillarum, ed. E. Rhodes, EETS, London,
1889 (3).
#Seaf# = the poem of the Seafarer, in #Gr#.
sg. = singular.
#Shr# = the Shrine by O. Cockayne, London, 1864-70 [pp. 29-33 and 46-156
= MH; pp. 35-44 = HL pp. 199-207; pp. 163-204 = AS].
SHy = Surtees Hymnarium = DHy.
SkED = An Etymological English Dictionary by W. W. Skeat, Oxford, 1910.
#Sol# = the poem Solomon and Saturn, in #Gr# (if in italics, the
reference is sometimes to the prose version, ed. J. M. Kemble).
#Soul# = the poem of the Soul, in #Gr#.
#SPs# = Psalterium Davidis Latino-Saxonicum, ed. J. Spelman, London,
1640. (Stowe MS, but includes marginal readings from _APs_, _CPs_ and
_EPs_.)
Swt. = The Student’s Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon by H. Sweet, Oxford,
1897.
TC = Diplomatarium Ævi Saxonici, ed. B. Thorpe, London, 1865 (3).
tr. = transitive.
usu. = usual, usually.
v. = vide, _or_ very.
v.l. = varia lectio.
#VPs# = the Vespasian Psalter, as contained in OET (1). [VHy = Hymns at
the end of the Psalter.] Glossary also by Conrad Grimm (AF, vol. 18),
Heidelberg, 1906.
V^2Ps = Psalter-Glosses in Cotton Vitellius E 18 (noted by Wildhagen
in _CPs_).
w. = with.
W = (I) Wulfstan’s Homilies, ed. A. Napier, Berlin, 1883. Glossary by
L. H. Dodd, New York, 1908. (II) West Saxon.
#Wa# = the poem of the Wanderer, in #Gr#.
#Wald# = the poem of Waldhere, in #Gr#.
Wfg = die Syntax in den Werken Alfreds, by J. E. Wülfing, Bonn,
1894-1901 (copious material, and indexes to words in AO, BH, _Bo_, CP,
AS, _PPs_, etc.).
WG = West Saxon Gospels (v. G).
#Whale# = the poem of the Whale, in #Gr#.
#Wid# = the poem of Widsith, in #Gr#, or ed. R. F. Chambers, Cambridge,
1912.
#Wif# = the poem of ‘the Wife’s Complaint,’ in #Gr#.
WS = West Saxon.
Wt = An Old English Grammar by J. and E. M. Wright, 2nd edition, Oxford,
1914.
WW = Old English Vocabularies, ed. by T. Wright and R. P. Wülker,
London, 1884. Cols. 1-54 = Cp; 55-88 = #KGl#; pp. 89-103 = _Colloq.
Monast._ in NED.
Wy = the poem ‘Be manna wyrdum’ in #Gr#.
ZDA = Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum, Leipzig and Berlin, 1853-1914.
ZDPh = Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie, Halle, 1869-1914.