Genesis A, Line 1705b: Textual Problems and a Proposed Solution
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Abstract
IN a 1916 article Henry Bradley proposed the emendation of Genesis A, line 1705, from þancolmod wer þeawum hydig to þancolmod wer Þare wæs haten.1 Understandably, his over-complicated suggestion for reconstruction has not received support, but the grounds for believing the line includes some textual error are sufficiently strong to merit further consideration of whether a better reading of line 1705b is not possible. First, this is the precise point at which we would expect the name Thare, father of Abraham (Genesis 11:26–7). Bradley argued that the poet ‘can have had no reason for leaving the patriarch anonymous’ and, more tellingly, the name is used twice, later in the poem as part of a patronymic for Abraham (eafora Þares: line 2054; Þares afera: line 2834), which perhaps implies that the author felt he had already explained who Þare was. Indeed, as Bradley pointed out, ‘the description þancolmod wer [in line 1705a], applied to a man about whom nothing whatever is known except his name and his place in the genealogy, decidedly looks as if it were introduced for the sake of alliteration with the name [Þare].’2
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| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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