The aim of this project is to conduct a comprehensive analysis of a fragmented eleventh-century psalter in Latin with a continuous gloss in Old English, known by the siglum N. Until recently, four parchment fragments have been identified as membra disiecta coming from this codex: two strips from Pembroke College, Cambridge (currently held at the University Library), a fragment from a bifolium in the Municipal Library in Haarlem, Holland, and an incomplete leaf from a Schlossmuseum in Sondershausen, Germany. All of these fragments were removed from unknown books with no documentation of the process. In 2020/21, two more fragments from […]
Monika Opalińska, associate professor of historical linguistics at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw; her scholarly interests range from historical phonology of Germanic languages and historical metrics to the history of the English language and literature, and manuscript studies. She has edited and translated Old English poetry into Polish – The Dream of the Rood, the Exeter Book elegies, versified prayers (Sen o Krzyżu. Staroangielski poemat mistyczny, WUW 2007, 2013, second ed.; Pieśni Szarej Godziny. Elegie staroangielskie z Kodeksu z Exeter, WUW 2014). She is the author of To the Rhythm of Poetry. A Study of Late Old […]