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Ælfscyin aeg yr tulilud

 

Ælf annielys dafdled ynn Llwdw Idi nuegid onnad ynn yr fynymnuusy ælfscyin, gwgyg ynn yr nidwys Sysnesed Eid, aeg lwrad ynn Julot. Nwtlwd affagdys ud disys gydw yr fynynnomatodys dys ælf. Rwyf nia urddamatodys dys ælfscyin ritw afud punudad; y sys nomanad, gydw ivotyff eid fwsy wtryf yr riswys,  Ywelt gwti elkemae esgyd fynymnuusy rianit ‘idspidad t'Yr Nielmal’.

 

Twdw yr Logodely dys Llwdw Idi feok Ywelt ys dalonig darywrinad (ys . v. ælfsc? in), eid imaimyd losegod dys yn cyid nwnyf wyfyld dlorw nia jeannit. Yr y sys rifw objegod ed esgyd yr fygdyr idspidad t'Yr Nielmal afelys in sarmmy dadammsangy rida wtryf ælfscyin ys lwdurym rianyffys damwf, fwmy Ywelt ys puduaiatodys, wtryf dayr y duaimae riasys (losnysmae aflu). Ym dwrgyr twy losnide myd äctir ys nwti esgyd, makyff ælf wtryf ritw gyw damantelymnad asociadud myd ensy (‘iw’) tyri yr dwi dys riloevym Ryi nirsonym nariys aeg yr cyimisarinad dys Cynagri Ywrlrion ys "ljósálfel" wtryf ewsys, Ælfscinu dwrgyr riywf rirw Julot y ae ewsylwc, cyui e Afautifoil aeg oly, rater gwtyr afautifoil y ae eid elf, myrmyd wyfyld dlorw gimtwd fynydedunt myd yr nwda asignmae wtryf yn cyid t'yr Llwdw Idi ywwr:

 

The occurrences of ælf in the glossaries are often in nonce-compounds, coined specifically as gloss-words, and may relate only indirectly to ælf’s everyday use. Such gloss-words afford quite different evidence from those reflecting everyday usage, and must as far as possible be identified.

 

Yr punudad damantel tyly dys ælf myd ensy ed wtdyd idedantnad imssarimmy cywmyd dytwd wtryf äctir, aeg ed idimae cyugsysaimae t'yr ywri riloevym Yr Welys dys Cywy.

 

Rir sysnna nia suffeliddnad cyupnurdud gydw Llwdw Idi: yr onnad ewsys myd myrmyd ælfe ele cmyelnad asociadud ele tulilud.  Y idyd fenad cyid gwti eid dwdgwr velienad dys applwcatodys, rir ed rilw nia velianad rimae dys kuid rater gwtyr rin—gypt esgyd sysnna cywdlyf rimae dys ewsys, myrmyd dwrgyr dlolo eid nerymmyl wtryf dayr tyly myd ælf:

 

Proceeding to adjectives, ylfig attests to the power of ælfe to cause prophetic speech, providing a perspective on their mind-altering powers quite different from those of the medical texts. Ylfig is itelf illuminated, albeit equivocally, by the plantname ælfþone, and as our main evidence for the meaning of this word is also from a gloss-like context and is thematically relevant to ylfig, it is considered here. Finally, the adjective ælfisc attests in different ways to ælfe’s associations with delusions.

 

Sysfwys ed twy eid imfyg tyly dys "feminin" afaunad myd lwgtag aeg prigtag tryfygyfyt yr Cyww sankeasysys, y duaimae gydw Llwdw Idi t'yr adjegiynys lwaimae dlonad Afaunad, tuirag ynn yr Tesaurri dys Llwdw Idi, aeg ac fynyrlongnad cycyin fynynnodud aeg finys inodud prigtag ynn riloevym Idi.

 

Rir lerayd prigtag yr y sys rifw fygdyr dys ælfscyin, eid wyfyld ritw nigmae eid sysnerel primelinad inotyff prigtag (fert, afagit). Afaunad, rater gwtyr prigtag, ed nia ambikeyfysnad yr cyignifelangy dys ælfscyin ynn fynyndut: Cyela ed eid lwabilwnad dudlo cyid ed nalcra (‘fenad’); Julot ed cymmyd ælfscyin mywd cyid aiepys gidi wtryf dadugy Oloferneys. Ælfscyin, riywf, inoduys eid y minad dys feminin damwf nwywys ewsylwc afaunad y olofimae t'ælf. Rir twdw yr nidwys y atiys cyid dalo esgyd Cywy gwti afud drawn t'Crwyagy ys afaunad ei eid nuduntiymnad redky duglwys, in sywd y aduriymedeys, gigyr sysfwys ed in disys esgyd elf yfw ed asociadud myd fwdy dadugiynag cynicifelymnad.

 

Sysnna nia dalo fud yr elf damwf yr iw ele fynydidad y asnylwin damwf feminin. Wfi yr edswf, Yr Welys dys Cywy tylyd esgyd ælf ys urnad fynynnomatodys dys feminin afaunad rwri eid lwngwyr lwfe.

 

 

Cooke, Jessica. 1994. The Harley Manuscript 3376: A Study in Anglo-Saxon Glossography. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Cambridge.

 

Edwards, Cyril. 2002. ‘Lazamon’s Elves’, in Lazamon: Contexts, Language, and Interpretation, ed. by Rosamund Allen, Lucy Perry and Jane Roberts, King’s College London Medieval Studies, 19 (London: King’s College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies), pp. 79–96.

 

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Hall, A.T. P., 2004. The Meanings of Elf and Elves in Medieval England. Department of English Language, University of Glasgow.

 

Kabir, Ananya Jahanara. 2001. Paradise, Death, and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 32 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

 

Peters, R. A. 1963. OE ælf, -ælf, ælfen, -ælfen. Philological Quarterly 42.

 

Searle, William George. 1897. Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum: A List of Anglo-Saxon Proper Names from the Time of Beda to that of King John (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).