Signs and Abbreviations

*

Hypothetical or reconstructed word-form

AbäG

Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik

AEW

F. Holthausen, Altenglisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd edn. (Heidelberg, 1974)

ANEW

J. de Vries, Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 4th edn. (Leiden, 2000)

ANF

Arkiv för nordisk filologi

ANQ

American Notes & Queries

ASE

Anglo-Saxon England

ASPR

G. P. Krapp and E. van K. Dobbie (ed.), The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records: A Collective Edition (New York, 1931–53)

BJRL

Bulletin of the John Rylands Library

BT

T. N. Toller (ed.), An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late Joseph Bosworth, D.D., F.R.S. (Oxford, 1898)

BTS

T. N. Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late Joseph Bosworth: Supplement (Oxford, 1921), with A. Campbell, Enlarged Addenda and Corrigenda (Oxford, 1972)

C&M

Classica et Mediaevalia

corr.

corrected

CV

R. Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson, An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 2nd edn. (Oxford 1957)

DOE

A. Cameron, A. C. Amos, A. diP. Healey et al. (ed.), Dictionary of Old English: A to H online (Toronto, 2016)

EDD

J. Wright (ed.), English Dialect Dictionary (Oxford, 1898–1905)

EETS

Early English Text Society

ELH

English Literary History

ELL

English Language and Linguistics

ELN

English Language Notes

e.s.

extra series (EETS)

ES

English Studies

FSN

Guðni Jónsson (ed.), Fornaldar sögur norðurlanda (Reykjavík, 1950)

GD

K. Friis-Jensen (ed.) and P. Fisher (trans.), Saxo Grammaticus: Gesta Danorum: The History of the Danes (Oxford, 2015)

HG

R. North, Heathen Gods in Old English Literature (Cambridge, 1997)

ÍF

Íslenzk fornrit

ÍO

Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon, Íslensk orðsifjabók (Reykjavík, 1989, corr. rpt., 1995)

JAF

Journal of American Folklore

JAOS

Journal of the American Oriental Society

JEGP

Journal of English and Germanic Philology

JWCI

Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes

KB

R. D. Fulk, R. E. Bjork and J. D. Niles (ed.), Klaeber’s Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg, 4th edn. (Toronto, 2008)

LP

Sveinbjörn Egilsson, Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog, ed. Finnur Jónsson, 2nd edn. (Copenhagen, 1931)

LSE

Leeds Studies in English

MÆ

Medium Ævum

MED

F. McSparran et al. (ed.), Middle English Dictionary, https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary

MHG

Middle High German

MIFL

S. Thompson, Motif-Index of Folk-Literature: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books, and Local Legends, rev. and enlarged edn. (Bloomington, 1955–8)

MGH

Monumenta Germaniae Historica

MLN

Modern Language Notes

MLR

Modern Language Review

MP

Modern Philology

NM

Neuphilologische Mitteilungen

N&Q

Notes and Queries

OE

Old English

OED

J. Simpson (ed.), Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edn. on CD-ROM, v. 4.0 (Oxford, 2009)

OHG

Old High German

ON

Old Norse

ONP

Aldís Sigurðardóttir et al. (ed.), Dictionary of Old Norse Prose, https://onp.ku.dk

o.s.

original series (EETS)

OT

Oral Tradition

pl.

plate(s)

PL

J. P. Migne (ed.), Patrologia Latina (Paris, 1844–64)

PMLA

Publications of the Modern Language Association of America

PQ

Philological Quarterly

PTP

K. E. Gade and E. Marold (ed.), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics, SPSMA 3 (Turnhout, 2017)

RES

Review of English Studies

SASE

H. R. E. Davidson, The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England: Its Archæology and Literature (corr. rpt. Woodbridge, 1994)

SASE5–7

P. Mortimer and M. Bunker (ed.), The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England from the 5th to 7th Century (Ely, 2019)

SBVS

Saga-Book of the Viking Society

SnEGylf

A. Faulkes (ed.), Snorri Sturluson: Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning (Oxford, 1982)

SnESkáld

A. Faulkes (ed.), Snorri Sturluson: Edda: Skáldskaparmál, 2 vols (London, 1998)

SP

Studies in Philology

SPSMA

Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

s.s.

supplementary series (EETS)

SS

Scandinavian Studies

s.v.

sub verbo (or sub verbis): ‘under the word(s)’

v.l.

varia lectio: ‘variant reading’