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Norse-Derived Terms in the "Ormulum" [PDF]
The Ormulum has been, from the onset, at the very centre of the philological investigation of the impact that Anglo-Scandinavian interaction in the Early Middle Ages had on the English lexicon.
Pons-Sanz, Sara
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Double trouble: Geminate versus simplex graphs in the Ormulum
1997John Anderson, Derek Britton
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The orthography and phonology of the Ormulum
English Language and Linguistics, 1999This paper investigates all aspects of the orthography of the Ormulum in relation to the phonology of the late twelfth-century south Lincolnshire dialect which Orm's spelling system was designed to reflect. We show that Orm's adaptations of what he found in existing orthographic systems provided a set of graphic symbols that was fully capable of ...
John Anderson, Derek Britton
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Twelfth-Century Rise of Spelling Reforms: The Ormulum and the First Grammatical Treatise [PDF]
The twelfth-century renaissance was a new stage in European intellectual life. This paper examines the works of two distinguished medieval phonologists and spelling reformers of the time, namely Orm’s Ormulum and the so-called First Grammatical Treatise, which mark a significant step in medieval grammatical theory and show a number of similarities in ...
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The twelfth-century Middle English homily collection “Ormulum” (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 1) starts off with a preface in which the author Orm outlines his reasons for undertaking his huge homily project: lay people need to have the gospels ...
Johannesson, Nils-Lennart,
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Line-End Hyphens in the Ormulum Manuscript (MS Junius I)
1994Abstract The essay that follows is based on some work I did on the Ormulum about 1956, by which time I had completed a fresh transcription of MS Junius I and was preparing the text for publication by the Early English Text Society. The essential points were to form part of the Introduction to this edition and will do so when I resume ...
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