The Art of Beekeeping Meets the Arts of Grammar: A Gloss of "Columcille's Circle".(Critical Essay)

From: Philological Quarterly | Date: September 22, 1999| Author: RUST, MARTHA DANA | Copyright information

Folio 15 verso of British Library manuscript Cotton Vitellius E.xviii, an eleventh-century codex written in all likelihood at Winchester, preserves a short item that begins with the words Pis is sancte columcille circul.(1) The diagram and instructions that follow are for a device meant to protect bees during a swarm. The Old English text for this beekeeping device reads Writ pysne circul mid pines cnifes orde on anum mealm stane 7 sleah aenne stacan on middan pam ymbhagan 7 lege p...

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