caa a22 4500 386310483 CHVBK 20180307111543.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198812 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0263675100004051 doi S0263675100004051 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0263675100004051 Hofstetter Walter The University of Munich Winchester and the standardization of Old English vocabulary [Elektronische Daten] [Walter Hofstetter] Over a century ago Eduard Dietrich noted that Æfric, pupil of Bishop Æthelwold and educated at Winchester, consistently used certain words (e.g. ælfremed, (ge)gearcian, (ge)fredan) in preference to synonyms (e.g. fremde, (ge)gearwian, (ge)felan) commonly found in other writers. The small number of words given by Dietrich as characteristic of Æfric's usage has been increased as a result of some lexical studies of more recent date. Karl Jost, for example, notes, among several other peculiarities of his vocabulary, Æfric's exclusive use of behreowsian and behreowsung instead of their synonyms hreowsian and hreowsung. Hans Schabram's study of the Old English terminology for superbia shows that Ælfric's language displays a remarkable uniformity in the almost exclusive choice of modig and its derivatives. One of the results of Elmar Seebold's work on the Old English equivalents for sapiens and prudens is to show that Ælfric always employed snotor and snotornes to express the concepts ‘prudens' and ‘prudentia'. Furthermore, in his study of the Old English vocabulary for corona, Josef Kirschner argues that Ælfric's almost exclusive use of wuldorbeag for corona in a figurative-religious sense (e.g. ‘corona vitae aeternae', ‘corona martyrii') suggests a deliberate attempt to standardize vocabulary. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988 Anglo-Saxon England Cambridge University Press 17(1988-12), 139-161 0263-6751 17<139 1988 17 ASE https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263675100004051 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263675100004051 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hofstetter Walter The University of Munich NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Anglo-Saxon England Cambridge University Press 17(1988-12), 139-161 0263-6751 17<139 1988 17 ASE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge