caa a22 4500 378876554 CHVBK 20180305123422.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20031123xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/ANGL.2003.210 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/ANGL.2003.210 Keefer Sarah Larratt Peterborough, Ontario In Closing: Amen and Doxology in Anglo-Saxon England [Elektronische Daten] [Sarah Larratt Keefer] In this study we explore the Anglo-Saxon understanding of and translations for ‘amen' and ‘doxology' as they are found at the end of homiletic, scriptural and above all, liturgical texts of the period. In some traditions, ‘amen' is mereley repeated without translation as a closure marker in its own language, while in others it is rendered in several different ways; these are notably a ‘correct' version using a subjunctive which indicates knowledge of ‘amen's literal significance, and an ‘incorrect' form that confuses the vernacular adverbial discourse marker ‘soðlice' with the closure marker proper. In poetry, both ‘amen' and any version of a closing doxological formula are frequently amplified, and comparison of these provides a new perception of the way in which Anglo-Saxons apprehended and used traditional liturgical closure markers. © Max Niemeyer Verlag GmbH, Tübingen 2003 Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 121/2(2003-11-23), 210-237 0340-5222 121:2<210 2003 121 ANGL https://doi.org/10.1515/ANGL.2003.210 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/ANGL.2003.210 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Keefer Sarah Larratt Peterborough, Ontario NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 121/2(2003-11-23), 210-237 0340-5222 121:2<210 2003 121 ANGL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter