The Pistill of Susanに於ける'man'の同義語

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概要

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• The Pistill of Susan is an alliterative poem written in the 13-line 'bob and wheel' stanza at about the middle of the 14th century by a poet who may be located in the southern part of the north of England (e.g. southern Yorkshire). The source of the poem is the story of Susan and the Elders from the Vulgate the Book of Daniel chapter 13. The poem is preserved in five manuscripts whose scribes are from further south than the poet is. The aim of this article is to investigate the use of poetic synonyms for 'man' in The Pistill of Susan and the lexical substitution of them among the five manuscripts and to compare the use of them with the Latin source, in order to reveal an aspect of the history of these poetic words. The investigation shows the following results. (1) While five synonyms for 'man' (burne, gome, renk, segge, and wye) occur in the standard edition of The Pistill of Susan, there are some differences about the occurring words and the frequency of these words among the five manuscripts. (2) In parap rasing the Latin source into the alliterative lines of his poem, the English poet uses skillfully the singular and plural forms of these poetic synonyms for 'man'. (3) Almost all of the examples of these poetic synonyms in the five manuscripts alliterate with other words within the line in which they occur. The fact suggests that the function of these poetic synonyms as alliterating word does not fade away in the process of transcription by the scribes of the manuscripts of The Pistill of Susan.

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著者

• 鎌田 幸雄

  仙台大学

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