The Ormulum or Orrmulum is a twelfth-century work of biblical exegesis, written by an Augustinian canon named Orrm (or Orrmin) and consisting of just...
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Middle English (section Ormulum, 12th century)
regarded as the oldest surviving texts in Middle English, now called the Ormulum. The influence of Old Norse aided the development of English from a synthetic...
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1150s–80s), was an Augustinian canon from south Lincolnshire who wrote the Ormulum, a collection of verse homilies that is the oldest English autograph and...
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and courts of law. Early examples of Middle English literature are the Ormulum and Havelock the Dane. In the fourteenth century major works of English...
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transition from Old to Middle English can be placed during the writing of the Ormulum. The oldest Middle English texts that were written by the Augustinian canon...
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ᫌ : Combining insular g, used in the Ormulum Ꝿ ꝿ : Turned insular g Ꟑ ꟑ : Closed insular g, used in the Ormulum ɢ : Latin letter small capital G, used...
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the Danelaw. Orm may also refer to: Orrm or Orrmin, the author of the Ormulum, a 12th century Christian text the commissioner of the Kirkdale sundial...
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Ꞃ ꞃ – Insular r (Gaelic type) ᫍ – Combining Insular r, as used in the Ormulum 𐤓 – Semitic letter Resh, from which the following letters derive: Ρ ρ...
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U+A7D3 ꟓ LATIN SMALL LETTER DOUBLE THORN was used in the Middle English Ormulum Pronunciation of English ⟨th⟩ Sho (letter), Ϸ, a similar letter in the...
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voiceless dental fricative [θ] ᫎ : Combining small insular t was used in the Ormulum ʇ : Turned small t is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)...
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"enclosure" is yard. An early example of this transformation is from the Ormulum: þatt ure Drihhtin wollde / ben borenn i þiss middellærd that our Lord...
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the given name include: Orrm or Orrmin (12th century), the author of the Ormulum Orm Eriksson (c.1476–1521), Norwegian nobleman, executed for involvement...
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block contains three combining insular letters for the Middle English Ormulum, ◌ᫌ ◌ᫍ ◌ᫎ. The Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement block contains additional...
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most common form for medieval Latin and vernacular verse, including the Ormulum. Its first use in English is possibly the Poema Morale of the twelfth/thirteenth...
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not come until Wycliffe's Bible, near the end of the 14th century). The Ormulum is in Middle English of the 12th century. Like its Old English precursor...
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Augustine and as time went on it came to be regarded as Augustinian. The Ormulum, an important Middle English Biblical gloss, was probably written in the...
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Mary is described as "handfast (to) a good man called Joseph". "?c1200 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 2389 "Ȝho wass hanndfesst an god mann Þatt iosæp...
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King's mirror, Konungs_skuggsjá, written in the mid 13th century in Norway Ormulum, written by a certain Orm in Central England, bears an indirect reference...
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1066, the Englisc language ceased being a literary language (see, e.g., Ormulum) and was replaced by Anglo-Norman as the written language of England. During...
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Life of Saint Audrey, Eadmer's (c. 1060 – c. 1126). During the writing of Ormulum (c. 1150 – c. 1180), the blending of both Old English and Anglo-Norman...
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English /hl/ consonant cluster. None of these features are found in the Ormulum, from Lincolnshire, which is almost two centuries older. As Michael explains...
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Unicode 14.0 (2021) added characters, including Insular letters, for the Ormulum: Ꟑ ꟑ Closed Insular G (U+A7D0, U+A7D1) ◌ᫌ Combining Insular G (U+1ACC)...
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Middle English dialects emerged and were later found in such works as the Ormulum and the writings of the Gawain poet. In the later Middle Ages, a Mercian...
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Orm/Orrmin, 12th century Augustine canon monk and eponymous author of the Ormulum, in which he stated that, since he dislikes that people are mispronouncing...
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Britannia 1801 blank verse Olson, Charles Maximus Poems 1953–1975 Orrm Ormulum 1150–1180 18,956 lines unrhymed strict heptameter Peterson, Joseph G. Inside...
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scripture was always mediated orally, visually or melodically. The 19,000 line Ormulum, produced by the Augustinian friar Orm of Lincolnshire around 1150, includes...
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is -leikr, loaned into North Midlands Middle English as -laik, in the Ormulum appearing as -leȝȝe. The suffix came to be used synonymously with -nesse...
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Used in a variety of phonetic contexts Ꟑ ꟑ ᫌ Closed insular G Used in Ormulum for voiced velar stop Ɡ ɡ ᶢ Script G Voiced velar stop ꬶ Script G with...
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Dictionary of English Etymology. His preparation of an edition of the Ormulum was supervised by J. R. R. Tolkien. Onions recommended him to Dan Davin...
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manuscript A few English Bible verses Old English 700 to 1000 Vulgate The Ormulum Some passages from the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles Middle English...
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