#Priscian

Have you ever wondered what #frogs and #ravens sounded like in the early medieval period?
The glosses on #Priscian in HAB, Wolfenbüttel, Cod. Guelf. 50 Weiss. are your friends! As the glossator tells us, they sounded like "coax" and "cra":

...and so it begins!

Today marks the first working day of my ERC CoG-project #glossit

In the coming five years my team and I will investigate language contact and knowledge transfer visible in the early medieval glossing traditions on the Venerable #Bede and #Priscian