What does the Form Ðrowian in the Taunton Fragment Stand For?

The Taunton Fragment is an eleventh-century bilingual (Latin-Old English) collection of expositions of gospel pericopes. In addition to contributing to understanding of pastoral care in Anglo-Saxon England, it provides invaluable information about linguistic innovations that take place during the transition period from Late Old to Early Middle English. The present article focuses on one such development-the form ðrowian. Taken at its face value, that is, as a ii class weak verb meaning 'to suffer; torment', it causes discrepancy between the syntactic structure and the lexical meaning in the Ol... Mehr ...