Ofer Hronrade—Defining the Long-Enigmatic “Hron” of Old English

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0013838X.2024.2391669" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0013838X.2024.2391669</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2024.2391669" target="_blank" >10.1080/0013838X.2024.2391669</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Ofer Hronrade—Defining the Long-Enigmatic “Hron” of Old English

Original language description

The poetic compound hronrad at the beginning of Beowulf is often translated as “whale road”, despite protestations from J.R.R. Tolkien that have hitherto been unheeded. Through an exhaustive contextual study of the Old English word hron—and its relationship with the common word hwæl—as well as statistical analysis of British marine biology, this paper seeks to demonstrate that the meaning of hron should indeed be separated from the Modern English word “whale”, with “orca” or “large dolphin” likely being more accurate translations.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

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Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

English Studies

ISSN

0013-838X

e-ISSN

1744-4217

Volume of the periodical

2024

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2024-08-28

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

1-14

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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