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Article: A Thesaurus of Old English, 2 vols.

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September 22, 1997
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Jane Roberts and Christian Kay, with Lynne Grundy, King's College London Medieval Studies II (London: King's College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 1995). z vols. xxxv + 1555 pp. ISBN 00-9522119-0-4. 55.00 [pounds sterling].

With approximately 48,000 word-entries, the Thesaurus of Old English (which is a forerunning constituent of the ongoing Historical Thesaurus of English) is an impressive piece of scholarship. It consists of two volumes: the first is the thesaurus itself, arranged according to a (not always transparently logical) conceptual organization on the model of Roger; the second is an index of Old English words, so that any item can ...

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