Women's names in Old English / Elisabeth Okasha.

This book provides an in-depth study into the issue of vernacular names in Old English documents. Specifically it challenges the generally accepted notion that the sex of an individual is definitively indicated by the grammatical gender of their name. While modern scholars have generally felt no dif...

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Main Author: Okasha, Elisabeth
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2011.
Series:Studies in early medieval Britain.
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