> Robin,
>
> Just curious: where did you get "Hunferth" from? I've never seen it
> rendered anywhere as anything but "Unferth". Is that how Kiernan spells
> it? Weird!
>
> Candice
Via one of Kiernan's articles, where he points out (alleges?) that in the
MS, the four occurrences of the name have it *always spelled (once with a
capital) "Hunferth", but it alliterates on a vowel.
Thus the consistent editorial emmendation to Unferth.
{Who in Wulfy's memorable put-down -- shades of Dubya! -- despite his high
wit, was damned. Who needs these bleeding East Coast Liberal
Intellectuals?}
I haven't access to the MS (I suppose I'll have to fork out for The
Electronic Beowulf at some point) but this doesn't seem to be the sort of
thing he'd get wrong.
Dunno -- anyone -- Chris? -- have access to the MS or a facsimile to check
this?
Robin
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