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The Old English Language of Fear
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Carlson, Erik A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation examines the development of the Old English vocabulary for fear under the influence of the Latinate discourse of Christian doctrine. The first chapter arranges the Old English words for fear into etymologically organized families and describes their incidence and usage across attested corpus of Old English, using the Dictionary…
Descriptors: Old English, Vocabulary, Fear, Latin