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Ormulum

The Ormulum or Orrmulum is a twelfth-century work of biblical exegesis, written by an Augustinian canon named Orrm (or Orrmin) and consisting of just under 19,000 lines of early Middle English verse. Because of the unique phonemic orthography adopted by its author, the work preserves many details of English pronunciation existing at a time when the…

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Ormulum

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related to References · 83
Ormulum → An Anthology, Andrew, Arthur, Bennett, Blackwell, Brewer, Brian, Burchfield, Cambridge, Charles Scribner's Sons, Clarendon Press, Cooper, Dictionary, Douglas, Dr, Early English Text Society, Early Middle English Verse, Elaine, English Compassio Mariae, Eric Dobson
related to Contents and style · 24
Ormulum → Acts, Apostles, As, Bede, Bede's, Bennett, Bible, Christian, Each, Enarrationes, English, Eynsham, Glossa Ordinaria, Gospel, Latin, Luke, Matthoei, Orrm, Rather, The
related to Significance · 20
Ormulum → Ancrene Wisse, As Bennett, At, Ayenbite, England, English, Fourth Council, Further, Geoffrey Chaucer, Gospel, He, Inwyt, It, Lateran, Middle English, Old English, Orrm, Orrm's, Received Standard English, The Ormulum
related to Manuscript · 12
Ormulum → Bennett, Bodleian Library MS Junius, Dutch, In, It, Jan, Only, Oxford, Robert Burchfield, The, There, Vliet
related to Orthography · 12
Ormulum → Anglo-Norman-speaking, Carolingian, English, English-speaking, For, He, In, Orrm, Orrm's, Rather, This, To
related to External links · 6
Ormulum → Bodleian Libraries, Digital BodleianMS Junius, Medieval Manuscripts, MS Junius, Stockholm University, The Ormulum Project
related to Origins · 3
Ormulum → At, Orrm, Unusually

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