caa a22 4500 463200519 CHVBK 20180405153111.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11061-005-4256-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11061-005-4256-8 Hall Alaric Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 4 (Fabianinkatu 24), FIN-00014, Helsinki, Finland aut The Evidence for Maran , the Anglo-Saxon ‘Nightmares' [Elektronische Daten] [Alaric Hall] This article examines the Old English word mære, the etymon of nightmare, and its variants. I address a number of questions arising from our basic Old English data in order to underpin future efforts to interpret the Old English material. Four main issues are tackled. Firstly, the existence of a strong noun mær as well as the weak mære (§2). Secondly, the source and significance of the unique lemma in the gloss incuba: mære, satyrus. This was almost certainly a glossed text of Isidore's Etymologiae in which incubi had been corrupted to incubae, a conclusion allowing us to infer with confidence precisely how the glossator understood incuba when he chose to deploy mære as a gloss (§3). Thirdly, the gendering of the beings denoted by mære, emphasising the complexity of the evidence but suggesting the probability that maran were invariably female (§4). Lastly, the meaning of the lemma and the significance of the gloss in Echo: wudumær. The long-standing interpretation of wudumær to mean ‘echo' can be dispensed with: it implies instead the nymph Echo, a supernatural female understood to be associated with woods (and possibly seduction), and is probably a gloss-word (§5). Springer, 2007 Neophilologus Kluwer Academic Publishers 91/2(2007-04-01), 299-317 0028-2677 91:2<299 2007 91 11061 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-005-4256-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-005-4256-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hall Alaric Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 4 (Fabianinkatu 24), FIN-00014, Helsinki, Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Neophilologus Kluwer Academic Publishers 91/2(2007-04-01), 299-317 0028-2677 91:2<299 2007 91 11061 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer