The Old English Poem `Judgement Day II': A Critical Edition with Editions of `De die iudicii' and the Hatton 113 Homily `Be domes daege'.

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Publication Date: 22-SEP-01

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The Old English Poem `Judgement Day II': A Critical Edition with Editions of `De die iudicii' and the Hatton 113 Homily `Be domes daege', ed. Graham D. Caie, Anglo-Saxon Texts 2 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000). xvi + 161 pp. ISBN 0-85991-5700. 40.00 [pounds sterling].

There are problems with this book. The editions are said to be based on a `fresh examination of all three manuscripts' (p. xiii), but there are bad mistakes in the texts. In the prose homily, a text of only three pages, there are incomprehensible misreadings of Hatton 113, such as `dolma' (Graham Caie's line 105) for `dwolma', `em rymma[eth]' (line 115) for `em trymma[eth]', `hern' (line 156) for `her', `hopu' (line 221) for `hopa', and `leahtes' (line 256) for...

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