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Acca, of Hexham 127 Baldwin, abbot of Bury St Edmunds Acts of the Apostles: see Pentecost 160–162 miracle; Bible Barking 126 Ælfric, abbot of Eynsham 8–9, 11, Basic colour terms: defi nition 231–233, 18–19, 21–22, 24–25, 57–58, 186, 193, 239–240; sequence of acquisition x, 253, 268, 274, 284 231, 235–236, 240 Æthelweard, ealdorman 11, 24, 28–29 Battle of Maldon, Th e 29 Æthelwold, 8–9, : see Historia ecclesiastica gentis 11, 18–19 Anglorum; Epistola ad Ecgberhtum Agilberht, bishop of the West episcopum; Vita Cuthberti; De arte 43–45, 62 metrica; Vita sancti Felicis; Epistola Agriculture 244–245 de obitu Bedae; Bede’s Death Aidan, bishop of 63–64 Song , grammarian 90 Bede’s Death Song 22–23 Album registrum: see London, British Begu, nun of Hackness 128 Library Additional 14847 Benedict, saint 119 of 2 n. 2, 11, 95, 125 Beodricesworth 160 n. 93, 127–128 29, 73, 213 Aldfrith, king of the Northumbrians Bertulf, abbot of Bobbio 113 41, 64 Bible 9, 46, 103–104, 109, 115, 128 Poem 20–21 n. 109, 130, 309 Aldhelm, bishop of Sherborne 6, 11, Birdoswald 141 30, 59, 82, 88–91, 94, 96–97, 122 Black 236–237, 242, 248, 252, 257–259, n. 82, 218; see also Aldhelm Poem; De 261, 263 metris; Carmen de virginitate Blæwen: see blue Alfred, King of the West Saxons 6–7, Bleu: see blue 11, 14, 15, 275; (see also Alfredian Blue x, 235 n. 9, 237, 244 n. 29, 246, translations) 254–256, 259–261, 263 Alfredian translations 7, 11–12, 27, 29, Boniface, archbishop of Mainz 55 253, 274, 277–279, 284 Bradley, Henry 186–188 Alliteration 20, 29–31, 315 Brittonic: infl uence on English viii, 293, Ambrose, saint 23, 104, 107, 121 298, 304; status in 41–43, And as conditional: and if 290–291, 64–71 294–300, 302, 304; development Brown x, 240 n. 21, 248, 251, 256–259, 291–294; origins 289–290, 293 261, 263 Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 11, 28–29, 191 Brun: see brown Angrboða 222 Bury St Edmunds: demographics 157, Annals of Quintus Ennius: see Quintus 160; history ix, 147–148, 157, Ennius 180 Asser, 28 of Ramsey 25 n. 3, 217 Athanasius of Alexandria: see Vita sancti Antonii Cædmon’s Hymn 227 Audax, grammarian 90, 94, 96 Caelin: see Ceawlin 107 Caelius Sedulius 93 Augustine, archbishop of Cambridge, University Library Ee. 3. 60 4, 51–52 168 330 index

Cambridge, University Library Ff. 2. 33 Dialogi of Gregory the Great: 154 n. 21, 157–159, 167–169 111–112, 118–120, 121, 129; Candidus of Fulda 95 27, 208 n. 11, 277, 284 Canterbury Tales, Th e, translations Dictionary of Old English vii, x, 18, 25, of: see Nicholson, U. J.; Hill, Frank 182–190, 256, 267, 290 Ernest; Coghill, Nevill; Lyy, Toivo Dictionary of Old English Corpus 185, Carmen ad Deum 30–31 267, 269–273 Carmen de virginitate 30, 91, 122 n. 82, Dictionary of the English Language: see Cartularies 157–158 Samuel Johnson Cassian, John 105–106 Discernment of spirits 106–107, 130 Catullus 85 Domesday Book(s) 3, 12, 15, 149, 155 Ceawlin, king of the West Saxons 62 Dreams ix, 99–109, 111, 115, 117–119, Cedd, bishop of the East Saxons 43, 121, 126, 128–131 45, 47–48 Durham Proverbs 197 Celtic: see Brittonic, Irish, Pictish Cenwealh, king of the West Saxons 45, Ealdred, Archbishop of York 143–144 62–63 East Anglian: see Old English Ceolfrid, abbot of Jarrow and of Eberulf, saint 116 Wearmouth 54 Ecgberht, bishop of York 56–57, 63 Charters 7, 13, 18, 149, 151–155, Edmund, saint 161–162, 165, 169 168–169, 190–191, 215, 253; (see also Edwin, king of the Northumbrians cartularies) 125–126, 203 Chrysarius 119 Elli 225 Clergy (demographics of ) 2, 4–6, 9, Emotional communities 99–100, 101 11–15, 22, 24, 31, 73, 163–167 n. 5 Clerk’s Tale, Th e 311 Enchiridion of Byrhtferth: see Byrhtferth Code alternation viii, 21, 24 of Ramsey Code-switching viii, 16–21, 24 Epistola ad Ecgberhtum episcopum 47 Coghill, Nevill 308, 310–311, 314, 325 Epistola de obitu Bedae 22 Columbanus, saint 113 Ethnicity 10, 60–62 Conditional clauses 294–295, 298–302; Eugendius, saint 111 (see also and as conditional) Evagrius Ponticus 105 Confessio amantis 276 Evagrius: see Vita sancti Antonii Contact: see language-contact Conversion 4, 52, 219, 252 Face 312–313 Corpus of Middle English Prose and Fæc 204, 208–211, 217–219 Verse 270 Fear 103–104, 106, 108–109, 111, Corpus-building 267–272 114–121, 124–126, 128–131 Cumbric: see Brittonic Felix, saint, of Crowland: see Vita sancti , saint, bishop of Guthlaci Lindisfarne 17, 23, 40 n. 11, Fenrir 222–225 122–123, 128–129 Fift h-foot spondee 81–82 Finan, bishop of Lindisfarne 48 Dalreudini 66 Findan, saint, of Rheinau 48 De arte metrica ix, 89, 91, 96 Fire 225, 241–242, 248, 251, 258 De cultura hortorum: see Walahfrid Franklin’s Tale, Th e 311 Strabo Fyrst 204, 208, 210–215, 217 De metris ix, 59, 89–91 De miraculis sancti Eadmundi 162 gān: see go De visionibus Wettini: see Walahfrid gangan: see go Strabo Garmr 224 Deo gracias 277 Gealu: see yellow Destruction of Troy 276 Gemynd: see mind Deusdedit, archbishop of Canterbury 5 227