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Beowulf 33a and Hapax Legomena

Abstract: It is pointed out that ūtfūs in line 33a of the Old English poem Beowulf is not a hapax legomenon, as it appears in two late Middle English verse texts. It is also argued that the first word of the half line, manuscript īsiġ, is a hapax legomenon in English, if emendation to īliġ is accepted. The distribution of this latter adjective in West Germanic and its meaning are discussed

Article, 2019
Neophilologus : An International Journal of Modern and Medieval Language and Literature, 104, 20190820, 255
2019