TY - JOUR
AU - Smallwood, T. M.
AB - 4 NOTES AND QUERIES March 2008 MIDDLE ENGLISH FOR GODE: ‘before’, and refers us specifically to a section in ‘IN TRUTH’ AND NOT ‘BY GOD’ the entry for that word, where we find: IN two of the works found in Oxford, Open to the knowledge of, displayed to. Bodleian Library MS Bodley 34, namely .. . Hence, as an asseveration, before God! ¼ 1 2 St. Juliana (St J) and Hali Meiðhad (HM), As God knows, by God. there appears the phrase for gode or, as edited, For its part MED quotes both the above for Gode. In each of these occurrences it is passages from MS Bodley 34 under the the opening of a sentence, apparently acting as definition ‘by God, for God’s sake, etc.’ an exclamation or an emphasizer of what (God, god n.(1), 6(b)). Received opinion, follows. Thus in St J (to quote directly from therefore, is quite clear that the three occur- the manuscript): rences in question are examples of an oath 1. for gode qðþe meiden þin hearm is þe invoking God. mare. However, there is a serious objection to this. It is not of course the fact that the word gode is And 
TI - Middle English for Gode: ‘In Truth’ and Not ‘By God’
JO - Notes and Queries
DO - 10.1093/notesj/gjm280
DA - 2008-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/middle-english-for-gode-in-truth-and-not-by-god-yo0uhSPcm0
SP - 4
EP - 13
VL - 55
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -