tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post4635822674598308137..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: Some Medieval Dogs to Haunt David Brooks and His Modern "Mutts"Cord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-5109972549693476062013-06-30T12:57:11.402-04:002013-06-30T12:57:11.402-04:00Hey Karl,
A kind of reference to you might like ...Hey Karl, <br /><br />A kind of reference to you might like that this reminds me of...<br /><br />The word for dog in English seems to be hound till about Chaucer. I OE, as far as I know, there is only one attestation is a gloss on a line of prudentius, canum, used pejoratively describe some sort of generally 'bad' individuals. It was an OED and DOE corpus search a few years ago that got me that, looking into, I think it's marijane Osborn's argument that the hapax 'dogode' in wulf and eadwacer be read as an instance of *dogian, to dog (as in, I think, of I remember right, to track and chase).dan remeinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13011645541207076650noreply@blogger.com