Of Angles and angels

Hines, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0440-6214 2025. Of Angles and angels. Laker, S., Falluomini, C., Krogh, S., Nedoma, R. and Schulte, M., eds. Germanic Interrelations: Studies in memory of Hans Frede Nielsen, NOWELE Supplement Series, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 103-125. (10.1075/nss.34.06hin)

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Abstract

From a period of a thousand years from the first century AD to the eleventh, diverse sources in multiple languages collectively testify to the source and development of the group-name (‘ethnonym’) from which the familiar Angeln, Angles, England and English of modern usage derive. The complex range of early attested forms proves consistent with well-attested principles of language-use and language-change. Like any natural phenomenon, a group with an expressed and named identity will be a state of constant adaptation to circumstances, be those opportunities or stresses, and the adoption and replacement of the variants in textual history likewise conforms with historical circumstances in readily explicable ways. A comprehensive and empirically precise approach is especially important in case of the evolution from the Anglii to the English, which is of clear historical salience, and has attracted much inaccuracy and even misrepresentation.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > History, Archaeology and Religion
Publisher:	John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN:	978-9027220127
ISSN:	0900-8675
Last Modified:	04 Jun 2025 10:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/178765

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