1993.
Breeze
(Andrew):
Deorc
‘bloody’ in
The dream of the rood
: Old Irish
derg
‘red, bloody’.
In
Éigse 28
(1995), pp. 165–168.
Argues that problematic OE
deorc
in
The Dream of the Rood
line 46 is best taken, on grounds the use of Ir.
derg
in later Irish texts, as a loan word from Irish thus meaning ‘bloody’, different from
deorc
‘dark’ inherited from Germanic.
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Classifications:
C 3.6 Multilingualism, language contact: between Irish (incl. Scottish Gaelic and Manx) and English
F 3.2 Literature and learning: Typology: Themes, motifs
Indexes:
Words/Proper Names:
dearg
deorc (OE)
derg
Author/Textual Sources:
Dream of the Rood