Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld

Biographic Data

ID4513529
NAMEHenry Cecil Kennedy Wyld
GIVEN NAMESHenry Cecil Kennedy
FAMILY NAMEWyld
SIGNATUREWYLD H C K
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1912
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1937
H-INDEX1

  • Studies in the Diction of Layamon's Brut

    Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld, Henry Cecil WyldARTICLELanguage1937

  • Studies in the Diction of La 3 amon's Brut

    Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld, Henry Cecil WyldARTICLELanguage1937

    Ærnen intrans., wk. ‘to ride, go on horseback; go, pass’, etc. OE ærnan intrans. and trans. (See also irnen, eornen below.) The verb is rare in OE, and its precise sense is hardly determinable from the two passages, from the OE Bede and Orosius respectively, cited in Bosworth-Toller. Madden, however, Glossarial Remarks 3.470, cites an illuminating passage from Alfred's Laws: gif hie fah mon geierne oþþe geærne ‘reach (a church) by running or by r…

  • Studies in the Diction of Layamon's Brut

    Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld, Henry Cecil WyldARTICLELanguage1934

  • Studies in the Diction of Layamon's Brut

    Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld, Henry Cecil WyldARTICLELanguage1933

    Æðele ‘fame, glory, high repute; might, power; honour’ etc. OE æðelu (indecl. in Sing.; constantly used in PL and declined as a Strong Neuter) ‘nobility of birth, high lineage, origin’; in spiritual sense, ‘virtue, noble qualities of mind and character’. Cp. the speech of Hrothgar's messenger to Beowulf:— Eow het secgan sige-drihten min, / aldor East-Dena, þæt he eower æþelu can Beow. 391-2; and again that of Ælfwine in the Battle of Maldon 216-7…

  • Studies in the Diction of Layamon's Brut

    Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld, Henry Cecil WyldARTICLELanguage1933

    [Continuation of the work published in LANG. 6.1-24 (1930). References to the Brut are to volume, page, and line of Madden's edition.]

  • The Universal Dictionary of the English Language

    George Philip Krapp, Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld et al.ARTICLEAmerican Speech1933Cited by: 1

  • Studies in the Diction of Layamon's Brut

    Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld, Henry Cecil WyldARTICLELanguage1930

    The remarkable poetical quality exhibited in the Brut of Layamon is perhaps hardly recognized at its true value even by students of our earlier literature. The rather excessive length of this work has probably deterred many from a careful and thorough perusal, and it is likely that the number of those who have read it right through is not large. The Present writer believes that lovers of English poetry will be well repaid by such a study and he h…

  • The surrey dialect in the XIII th century

    Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld, Henry Cecil WyldARTICLEEnglish Studies1921

  • The Place-Names of Lancashire

    H C Wyld, Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1912

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