tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post6266879109212204764..comments2024-03-28T14:05:25.134-07:00Comments on Sacnoth's Scriptorium: A BRIEF HISTORY OF 'THE HOBBIT'John D. Rateliffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-52529715411321070822014-04-02T23:02:14.079-07:002014-04-02T23:02:14.079-07:00Not really an erratum, but a query about the link ...Not really an erratum, but a query about the link between Broceliand and Hy Bresil that I seem to remember from your History (not to hand at the moment). I've been hoping to post a note on it on my blog "Utuinen Niemen", but it's been taking me a long time to figure out how blogging works. The short of it: I can't find any references to it and what I have found seems to preclude a relationship. (PS Your History is an extraordinary work that I very much enjoyed, even for quibbles like this that it sent me chasing after.)<br /><br />Brocéliande: earliest Brecheliant (Wace 1160, Roman de Rou), usually analysed as Bre-Sulien 'Sulien's Hill' (Abalain, Noms de lieux Breton), where Sulien is the name of a saint (Koch, Celtic Encyclopedia) and bre < *briga, now a rare word in Breton but commoner earlier esp in place names, though there may have been influence of Breton bro 'country'.<br /><br />Hy Bresil: Seems unconnected: gen. of Bre(a)sal < *Bres-(u)al < *bristo-walos = *bresta, OIr bres fight, Breton brezel war, or perhaps linked to MIr bre 'mighty, noble', Breton braz. A discussion Tolkien would likely have known: T J Westropp "Brasil and the legendary islands of the North Atlantic" (Proc Royal Irish Acad 30, 1912); another post-Hobbit but very nice: R M Smith "Guingabresil and the Green Knight" (J Eng & Germ Phil 45, 1946).<br />Widiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03587404341699285978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-61019144032848102812014-03-01T07:11:43.608-08:002014-03-01T07:11:43.608-08:00John,
Good news about the new edition of your boo...John,<br /><br />Good news about the new edition of your book, it will join the first two edition on my shelf.<br /><br />One error that is in both the printed version of the 2nd one volume edition (p75, Note 5) and the ebook is that <i>Smaug</i> is misspelled <i><b>Snaug</b></i>. <br /><br />SandraAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18177963666233232557noreply@blogger.com