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Class time: 2 hours
Assignment time: 10 hours
Standards
Ideas of Nation in Pre- and Post-Conquest Medieval England (4th year seminar class); no Old English prerequisite (English and History majors).
Objectives
Classwork: Students unfamiliar with Old English learn to use the DOE; students learn to use Omeka; students learn to use metadata and think in structured, critical ways about resource materials and material culture.
Assignment: Students compare the usage of 'nation-words' in two or more primary materials, and create an Omeka presentation.In doing so, students learn about the diversity of texts available in OE; using close-reading as historical evidence; usefulness of digital tools and resources in doing historical research.
Materials
DOE
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Title
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'Nation Words' in the OE Corpus (with optional Omeka assignment)
Subject
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Old English
Omeka
Material Culture
English Nationalism
Description
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Classwork: students learn how to use DOE and DOE Corpus to search for 'nation-words', thinking about aspects such as date (where it is possible to date the OE text) and type of document (historical, homily, charter, private will) (1 hour) Optional Omeka component: students learn how to use Omeka to create an exhibit, drawing on archival material (British Museum, British Library) for material culture items (1 hour).
Optional Omeka assignment: In small groups, students create an Omeka exhibition comparing two or more incidences of a particular 'nation word' or set of 'nation words' in primary texts in Old English, drawing conclusions about the circulation, rhetoric, and evolution of concepts of nation and nationalism in early medieval England. Students will build an archive of items to illustrate these nation words: manuscript folio pages, DOE entries, text, images, etc. Then students will build an Omeka exhibit using the archive of items they have built. The extent and type of visualization in the exhibit are flexible, depending on the type of project the students want to undertake. Examples: comparing the changed contexts of a particular word pre-and-post-conquest England.
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Anna Wilson
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May-14
Lesson plan
teaching
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Antonette diPaolo Healey
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Antonette diPaolo Healey
Description
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Antonette diPaolo Healey at the Dictionary of Old English, May 2014
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Photo: Alexandra Bolintineanu
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8-May-14
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Beowulf on Scantron
Subject
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Beowulf
Description
An account of the resource
Digitizing the Old English Corpus
"In general, optically scanned systems are labor-efficient but introduce a proportion of machine errors, while human entry systems are labor-intensive, and vary in their accuracy depending on the people themsleves. In the early seventies [...] we rekeyed the entire corpus (that was almost the only means of data entry then) and our secretary, Elaine Quanz, spent most of six years typing it. But because time on the mainframe computer was very expensive, she didn't key the texts into an on-line file, but rather typed them in a special IBM Selectric font, OCR-B, which was legible to a primitive optical scanner. [...] The old-fashioned system did not function too badly, chiefly because of the extraordinary speed and accuracy--to say nothing of the good nature--of our secretary. The texts were typed one by one, coded with their alphanumeric text codes and entered with substitute characters for Old English æ, þ, ð, and ę. They were collected in batches and sent off to be scanned." (Ashley Crandell Amos, "Computers and Lexicography: The Dictionary of Old English," Editing, Publishing, and Computer Technology, AMS Press, Inc., 1988).
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Photographer: Alexandra Bolintineanu
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Catherine Monahan, Editorial Staff
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people
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Checking citation slips against manuscript facsimile
Description
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Graduate assistants check citation slips against manuscript facsimiles.
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Old English Word Journal Entry
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Headword
collen-ferhþ
Grammatical Information
Part of Speech; Gender; Class of Noun; Class of Verb
adjective
Texts
Name some of the texts in which your word appears. Are they mainly poetry or prose? What types of texts are they: devotional, legal, historical?
Judith; Beowulf; Andreas; Elene; Fates of the Apostles; etc.
Occurs in poetry
Survival
Does your word survive into modern English? Is it still used in the same way? If so, provide a link to the Oxford English Dictionary entry.
Does not appear in modern English
Mnemonic
Come up with a trick for remembering the definition of your word.
Colin Firth is a proud, bold-spirited man.
Word Family
List at least 20 Old English words related to your word either morphologically or thematically.
āglāc-wīf (noun, n. cl. 1) female warrior, fearsome woman
beadu-rōf (adj) brave and renowned in battle
brego-rōf (adj) brave as a ruler or lord
cēne (adj) bold, brave, daring
cēnlīce (adv) boldly
dǣd-hwæt (adj) bold in deeds, brave
ellenlic (adj) courageous, brave
ferhþ (noun, m.) mind, soul, spirit, heart
gecollenferhtan (verb, wk. 1) to take heart, be bold
gūþ-wiga (noun, m. wk.) gūþ-wiga
Occurences
How many times does your word appear in the corpus?
13
Definition(s)
brave, bold-spirited; proud; audacious
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collen-ferhþ
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Kasandra Castle
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Dictionary of Old English
Date
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1-May-14
teaching
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Welcome to the Dictionary of Old English, which defines the earliest form of the English language, spoken and written between 600 and 1150 AD.
This video shows you how to navigate entries in the Dictionary of Old English. You’ll learn how to select an entry, what the parts of an entry are, and what to do with the evidence in each part.
Let’s get started. You’ve seen how to do basic searches in our first video. You can also scroll through the dictionary’s entries in alphabetical order. The word wheel is just below the search screen. Click on a letter to display its entries.
Let’s pick one sample entry -- “goldsmith” -- and go through its components.
First, the headword is the word defined by a dictionary entry, the word that a dictionary entry is all about.
Next up, grammatical information about the word: part of speech, grammatical gender if it’s a noun, strong or weak if it’s a noun or verb. Very occasionally, you’ll also find etymological information.
Next, attested Spellings: these are all forms of our headword that are recorded in the DOE Web Corpus.
Next, occurrence: how often the headword occurs in the corpus, and how it is used: is it mainly a poetic term? Or does it usually appear in medical texts, laws, glossaries, charters? Is it a word mostly used in the north of England? Is it mostly used by one author, such as Wulfstan or Ælfric? Are there other patterns in its usage, in terms of date of MS, or dialect, or region, or genre of text? Goldsmið, since it has no restriction noted, seems to be general Old English.
Next, citations: the evidence behind the definitions. Every sense of every word is illustrated with citations from the DOE Corpus. Click on the hyperlink at the beginning of a citation—which is the citation reference--to see where a citation comes from: you’ll see the bibliographical information for the text, its full title, and the edition used by the DOE.
For example, take this citation:
A list of occupations in Latin is glossed in Old English; the word goldsmið translates aurifex, goldsmith, distinguishing it from with other kinds of smiths and craftsmen, such as smiths, iron smiths, silver smiths, ore smiths, and wood workers. If you click on the hyperlink, you see that the citation comes from Ælfric’s Colloquy, edited by Garmonsway.
At the bottom, each entry has the equivalent of footnotes: references to related material beyond just the headword.
For Old English related words, see Cross Reference: this shows you Old English words related to the headword.
For Latin related words, see Latin Cross Reference: this shows you Latin equivalents for the headword drawn from manuscripts with Old English text and the parallel Latin source, like the Rule of St. Benedict.
For related words in other dictionaries, see Secondary Cross Reference. ‘Goldsmith,’ for example, has related entries in the Middle English Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary. This allows you to trace the word across the entire history of English.
Finally, in some entries you may find Additional material or Parenthetical material. The first has editorial notes on the entry, while the second has notes on the citations.
Now that you know the parts of an entry in the DOE, you can navigate entries and fully use their evidence. If you ever want more information about part of an entry, go to the top menu in the DOE interface and click on “Sample Entry.” Then click on the red bullets to uncover information about each part of an entry. Happy searching with the Dictionary of Old English.
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Welcome to the Dictionary of Old English, which defines the earliest form of the English language, spoken and written between 600 and 1150 AD.
This video shows you how to navigate entries in the Dictionary of Old English. You’ll learn how to select an entry, what the parts of an entry are, and what to do with the evidence in each part.
Let’s get started. You’ve seen how to do basic searches in our first video. You can also scroll through the dictionary’s entries in alphabetical order. The word wheel is just below the search screen. Click on a letter to display its entries.
Let’s pick one sample entry -- “goldsmith” -- and go through its components.
First, the headword is the word defined by a dictionary entry, the word that a dictionary entry is all about.
Next up, grammatical information about the word: part of speech, grammatical gender if it’s a noun, strong or weak if it’s a noun or verb. Very occasionally, you’ll also find etymological information.
Next, attested Spellings: these are all forms of our headword that are recorded in the DOE Web Corpus.
Next, occurrence: how often the headword occurs in the corpus, and how it is used: is it mainly a poetic term? Or does it usually appear in medical texts, laws, glossaries, charters? Is it a word mostly used in the north of England? Is it mostly used by one author, such as Wulfstan or Ælfric? Are there other patterns in its usage, in terms of date of MS, or dialect, or region, or genre of text? Goldsmið, since it has no restriction noted, seems to be general Old English.
Next, citations: the evidence behind the definitions. Every sense of every word is illustrated with citations from the DOE Corpus. Click on the hyperlink at the beginning of a citation—which is the citation reference--to see where a citation comes from: you’ll see the bibliographical information for the text, its full title, and the edition used by the DOE.
For example, take this citation:
A list of occupations in Latin is glossed in Old English; the word goldsmið translates aurifex, goldsmith, distinguishing it from with other kinds of smiths and craftsmen, such as smiths, iron smiths, silver smiths, ore smiths, and wood workers. If you click on the hyperlink, you see that the citation comes from Ælfric’s Colloquy, edited by Garmonsway.
At the bottom, each entry has the equivalent of footnotes: references to related material beyond just the headword.
For Old English related words, see Cross Reference: this shows you Old English words related to the headword.
For Latin related words, see Latin Cross Reference: this shows you Latin equivalents for the headword drawn from manuscripts with Old English text and the parallel Latin source, like the Rule of St. Benedict.
For related words in other dictionaries, see Secondary Cross Reference. ‘Goldsmith,’ for example, has related entries in the Middle English Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary. This allows you to trace the word across the entire history of English.
Finally, in some entries you may find Additional material or Parenthetical material. The first has editorial notes on the entry, while the second has notes on the citations.
Now that you know the parts of an entry in the DOE, you can navigate entries and fully use their evidence. If you ever want more information about part of an entry, go to the top menu in the DOE interface and click on “Sample Entry.” Then click on the red bullets to uncover information about each part of an entry. Happy searching with the Dictionary of Old English.
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Title
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Dictionary of Old English - Parts of an Entry
Subject
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DOE
Description
An account of the resource
How to navigate the parts of a DOE entry.
Creator
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Alexandra Bolintineanu
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May-14
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CC-BY
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English
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Welcome to the Dictionary of Old English Corpus. Old English is the earliest form of the English language, spoken and written between 600 and 1150 AD. The DOE Corpus contains at least one version of every known Old English text. So when you search the Corpus, you search almost every word of Old English in the world.
This video shows you how to use the Dictionary of Old English and the Corpus even if you don’t have a background in Old English: for example, if you are researching the law or medicine of Anglo-Saxon England. In this video, we explore how you can use the DOE and the Corpus to research eye disease in primary sources.
First step: go to the DOE and find Old English words related to eye disease.
Second step: go to the Corpus nand find all passages in Old English where the “eye disease”-related words occur.
So let’s turn to the DOE.
First, let’s look at the Old English word “eye” itself: from the search screen, select “Definition” and “eye”. You get a list of words that contain the modern English word “eye” in their definitions. Scroll down to the word “eage,” Old English for “eye.”
Now look at the definition, sense 1b:
You find Old English terms for a variety of eye problems: for example, the more general “pain in the eyes”: sar or sarnes eagena or on eagum (pain in the eyes); eagena ece, eagena wærc; or the more specific “fleah on eagan” (white spot on the eyes: cataract). Scroll down from the definitions to see what texts these terms occur in. You’ll note that your main Old English sources on eye disease are:
LCHII (Bald’s Leechbook); LCHI (Pseudo-Apuleius’ Herbarium and Medicina de quadripedibus); Peri Didaxeon.
If you want to focus on one specific ailment, time to turn to the Corpus. Take “eagena untrumnes”, infirmity of the eyes.
Search for eag* and untrumn*: wildcards instead of word endings give you more flexibility. What you get is a helpful index to the expression’s occurrence in the corpus:
Its components occur once in Ælfric’s Grammar and Glossary; four times in the Herbarium; once in Bald’s Leechbook; and once in Anglo-Saxon Magic and Medicine. If you are researching “weakness or infirmity of the eyes,” this is a reliable list of primary sources to begin your inquiry.
This video showed you how to combine the DOE and the Corpus to mine primary sources for historical research. For more information, please see the DOE Help Manual. Happy searching with the Dictionary of Old English!
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Welcome to the Dictionary of Old English Corpus. Old English is the earliest form of the English language, spoken and written between 600 and 1150 AD. The DOE Corpus contains at least one version of every known Old English text. So when you search the Corpus, you search almost every word of Old English in the world.
This video shows you how to use the Dictionary of Old English and the Corpus even if you don’t have a background in Old English: for example, if you are researching the law or medicine of Anglo-Saxon England. In this video, we explore how you can use the DOE and the Corpus to research eye disease in primary sources.
First step: go to the DOE and find Old English words related to eye disease.
Second step: go to the Corpus nand find all passages in Old English where the “eye disease”-related words occur.
So let’s turn to the DOE.
First, let’s look at the Old English word “eye” itself: from the search screen, select “Definition” and “eye”. You get a list of words that contain the modern English word “eye” in their definitions. Scroll down to the word “eage,” Old English for “eye.”
Now look at the definition, sense 1b:
You find Old English terms for a variety of eye problems: for example, the more general “pain in the eyes”: sar or sarnes eagena or on eagum (pain in the eyes); eagena ece, eagena wærc; or the more specific “fleah on eagan” (white spot on the eyes: cataract). Scroll down from the definitions to see what texts these terms occur in. You’ll note that your main Old English sources on eye disease are:
LCHII (Bald’s Leechbook); LCHI (Pseudo-Apuleius’ Herbarium and Medicina de quadripedibus); Peri Didaxeon.
If you want to focus on one specific ailment, time to turn to the Corpus. Take “eagena untrumnes”, infirmity of the eyes.
Search for eag* and untrumn*: wildcards instead of word endings give you more flexibility. What you get is a helpful index to the expression’s occurrence in the corpus:
Its components occur once in Ælfric’s Grammar and Glossary; four times in the Herbarium; once in Bald’s Leechbook; and once in Anglo-Saxon Magic and Medicine. If you are researching “weakness or infirmity of the eyes,” this is a reliable list of primary sources to begin your inquiry.
This video showed you how to combine the DOE and the Corpus to mine primary sources for historical research. For more information, please see the DOE Help Manual. Happy searching with the Dictionary of Old English!
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Dictionary of Old English & Dictionary of Old English Corpus for Historians
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doe; doe corpus
Description
An account of the resource
How to use the DOE and the Corpus to mine primary texts and research history, law, medicine--even without a background in Old English
Creator
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Alexandra Bolintineanu
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
7-May-14
teaching; videos; tutorial videos
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https://doe-omeka.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/173244f2d8c8be6541810946442744f9.mp4
5a3e499fec0ce49e52fceb4db48cb775
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Help Screencast 1
Welcome to the Dictionary of Old English.
The Dictionary of Old English (DOE) defines the earliest form of the English language, spoken and written between 600 and 1150 AD.
This video shows you how to use the Dictionary of Old English to carry out basic research tasks. You’ll learn
how to look up an OE word
how to look up a modern English word
All right: Let’s get started. First, let’s look up an OE word.
The DOE defines Old English words from A to G. Suppose you want to look up the Old English word gefnesan. Select “Headword” from the drop-down menu. Then enter your word, gefnesan, in the next search box. Please use lower case letters; some capital letters—A as in apple, D as in Delta, and T as in Tango—always appear as special Old English characters Æ (Ash), Ð (Eth), and þ (Thorn).
Once you’ve typed in your word, click “Search”.
The entry with the word’s definition appears on the right-hand side: “gefnesan” means “to sneeze.”
Old English uses the letters Æ (Ash), Ð (Eth), and þ (Thorn). What if your word contains these special characters? Use capital letters to enter them into the DOE search box.
Let`s take the word ælþeodig: type capital A for Ash, capital T for thorn.
If you can`t find a match, then your word may be defined under another spelling. To find it, select “Attested Spelling” from the drop-down menu. This will let you look at all word forms that exist in the corpus and that are related to defined words. And success: aeltheodig means foreign.
You have successfully looked up two Old English words. But what if you want to do the opposite—look up a modern English word in Old English?
In that case, select “Definition” from the drop-down menu. Enter your Modern English word (let’s say ‘sneeze’) in the search box.
And there you go: gefnesan is the Old English word you are looking for.
Using the Definition field, you can look up a simple and specific term, like ‘sneeze.’ Or you can explore the semantic field of a term with more wide-ranging connections. For example, ‘wife’ appears in the definitions of a range of Old English words, describing a wife, marriage, betrothal, family relationships—but also repudiation, divorce, and the severing of domestic ties.
You’ve seen how to carry out basic searches for Old English and Modern English terms. Join us in further videos to learn more advanced features and techniques of the Dictionary of Old English.
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Welcome to the Dictionary of Old English.
The Dictionary of Old English (DOE) defines the earliest form of the English language, spoken and written between 600 and 1150 AD.
This video shows you how to use the Dictionary of Old English to carry out basic research tasks. You’ll learn
how to look up an OE word
how to look up a modern English word
All right: Let’s get started. First, let’s look up an OE word.
The DOE defines Old English words from A to G. Suppose you want to look up the Old English word gefnesan. Select “Headword” from the drop-down menu. Then enter your word, gefnesan, in the next search box. Please use lower case letters; some capital letters—A as in apple, D as in Delta, and T as in Tango—always appear as special Old English characters Æ (Ash), Ð (Eth), and þ (Thorn).
Once you’ve typed in your word, click “Search”.
The entry with the word’s definition appears on the right-hand side: “gefnesan” means “to sneeze.”
Old English uses the letters Æ (Ash), Ð (Eth), and þ (Thorn). What if your word contains these special characters? Use capital letters to enter them into the DOE search box.
Let`s take the word ælþeodig: type capital A for Ash, capital T for thorn.
If you can`t find a match, then your word may be defined under another spelling. To find it, select “Attested Spelling” from the drop-down menu. This will let you look at all word forms that exist in the corpus and that are related to defined words. And success: aeltheodig means foreign.
You have successfully looked up two Old English words. But what if you want to do the opposite—look up a modern English word in Old English?
In that case, select “Definition” from the drop-down menu. Enter your Modern English word (let’s say ‘sneeze’) in the search box.
And there you go: gefnesan is the Old English word you are looking for.
Using the Definition field, you can look up a simple and specific term, like ‘sneeze.’ Or you can explore the semantic field of a term with more wide-ranging connections. For example, ‘wife’ appears in the definitions of a range of Old English words, describing a wife, marriage, betrothal, family relationships—but also repudiation, divorce, and the severing of domestic ties.
You’ve seen how to carry out basic searches for Old English and Modern English terms. Join us in further videos to learn more advanced features and techniques of the Dictionary of Old English.
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Title
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Dictionary of Old English Basic Searches
Subject
The topic of the resource
DOE
Description
An account of the resource
How to use the Dictionary of Old English to look up Old English and Modern English words.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Alexandra Bolintineanu
teaching; videos; tutorial videos
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https://doe-omeka.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/7d220c4563660dddc988f25430797285.mp4
a5ec48c245c65ab50fea4a477314953e
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Transcription
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Help Screencast 2
Welcome to the Dictionary of Old English, which defines the earliest form of the English language, spoken and written between 600 and 1150 AD.
This video shows you how to navigate entries in the Dictionary of Old English. You’ll learn how to select an entry, what the parts of an entry are, and what to do with the evidence in each part.
Let’s get started. You’ve seen how to do basic searches in our first video. You can also scroll through the dictionary’s entries in alphabetical order. The word wheel is just below the search screen. Click on a letter to display its entries.
Let’s pick one sample entry -- “goldsmith” -- and go through its components.
First, the headword is the word defined by a dictionary entry, the word that a dictionary entry is all about.
Next up, grammatical information about the word: part of speech, grammatical gender if it’s a noun, strong or weak if it’s a noun or verb. Very occasionally, you’ll also find etymological information.
Next, attested Spellings: these are all forms of our headword that are recorded in the DOE Web Corpus.
Next, occurrence: how often the headword occurs in the corpus, and how it is used: is it mainly a poetic term? Or does it usually appear in medical texts, laws, glossaries, charters? Is it a word mostly used in the north of England? Is it mostly used by one author, such as Wulfstan or Ælfric? Are there other patterns in its usage, in terms of date of MS, or dialect, or region, or genre of text? Goldsmið, since it has no restriction noted, seems to be general Old English.
Next, citations: the evidence behind the definitions. Every sense of every word is illustrated with citations from the DOE Corpus. Click on the hyperlink at the beginning of a citation—which is the citation reference--to see where a citation comes from: you’ll see the bibliographical information for the text, its full title, and the edition used by the DOE.
For example, take this citation:
A list of occupations in Latin is glossed in Old English; the word goldsmið translates aurifex, goldsmith, distinguishing it from with other kinds of smiths and craftsmen, such as smiths, iron smiths, silver smiths, ore smiths, and wood workers. If you click on the hyperlink, you see that the citation comes from Ælfric’s Colloquy, edited by Garmonsway.
At the bottom, each entry has the equivalent of footnotes: references to related material beyond just the headword.
For Old English related words, see Cross Reference: this shows you Old English words related to the headword.
For Latin related words, see Latin Cross Reference: this shows you Latin equivalents for the headword drawn from manuscripts with Old English text and the parallel Latin source, like the Rule of St. Benedict.
For related words in other dictionaries, see Secondary Cross Reference. ‘Goldsmith,’ for example, has related entries in the Middle English Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary. This allows you to trace the word across the entire history of English.
Finally, in some entries you may find Additional material or Parenthetical material. The first has editorial notes on the entry, while the second has notes on the citations.
Now that you know the parts of an entry in the DOE, you can navigate entries and fully use their evidence. If you ever want more information about part of an entry, go to the top menu in the DOE interface and click on “Sample Entry.” Then click on the red bullets to uncover information about each part of an entry. Happy searching with the Dictionary of Old English.
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Welcome to the Dictionary of Old English Corpus. Old English is the earliest form of the English language, spoken and written between 600 and 1150 AD. The DOE Corpus contains at least one version of every known Old English text. So when you search the Corpus, you search almost every word of Old English in the world.
This video shows you how to perform a basic search of the Corpus.
Let’s get started with the Old English word helm, origin of the Modern English ‘helm’ in the sense of ‘helmet.’ In Old English, helm means head covering, protection, but also crown or summit.
So let’s see how helm was used in Old English. We enter helm in the top search box on the left and click the “Search” button. We get 110 citations that contain the word “helm.” If you want, you can look at the usage of helm just in poetry, or just in verse, or just in gloss. Select “Restrict by class” and pick the option “verse.” Now you have poetic usages only, beginning with the poem Genesis A:
[3400 (112)] Her ærest gesceop ece drihten, helm eallwihta, heofon and eorðan, rodor arærde, and þis rume land gestaþelode strangum mihtum, frea ælmihtig.
Here first created the eternal Lord, the helm—that is, protector—of all creatures, earth and heaven, raised up the sky, established this spacious land with strong might, the almighty lord.
To see a text’s full title and bibliographical information, click on the hyperlink at the citation’s start.
Back to the search: You can restrict your results even further. Suppose you’re curious how the Beowulf-poet uses helm. Lift the class restriction and go to “Restrict by Works” instead. To learn how the DOE abbreviates Beowulf, go to “List of Texts,” from the top menu. Enter “Beowulf” in the search box below the alphabet. Now you know both the Old English Short Title and the Cameron number. Go back to “Home.” Under “Restrict by Works,” choose “Short Title” and enter “Beo.” You have 28 citations that exemplify the usage of helm in Beowulf.
But what if you’re looking not just for the word helm as such, but for the word helm in alternate spellings, inflected forms, even in compounds? Surround it with asterisks, which allow wildcard searches. Suddenly, even just in Beowulf, you have 43 matches instead of 28.
This search, the wildcard search, turns up words that contain helm: inflected forms, like the dative under helme; or compounds, like grimhelmas (‘visored helmets’) or helmberend (‘helm-bearing’).
This video showed you the basics of Corpus searches: how to find one word in the Old English corpus; how to restrict your search to one kind of text, or even just one text; how to access bibliographical information for a citation; how to include compounds and inflected forms in your search. Happy searching with the Dictionary of Old English!
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How to perform basic DOE Corpus searches finding one word in the corpus, restricting searches to one text or one class of texts, accessing bibliographical information for citations, and including compounds and inflected forms in searches.
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