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E.g. Stephanus sōþlice gebigedum cneōwum Drihten
bæd…"Stephen however on bended knees besought the Lord…".
Hence the word order S–V. does not certify that a clause is
subordinate. With this word order, the verb need not have final position,
but may be followed by an adverbial extension.
E.g. ǣr he acenned wæs of Marian…" before He was born of
Mary".
Correlation
The third thing which makes us feel that OE is a foreign language is
its marked fondness of correlation. But it later becomes a very important
stylistic device which such an outstanding writer as Ælfric used widely.
Consider the following sentence from his "Homely on the Passion
of St.Stephen": þider đe Stephanus forestop, mid Saules stanum
oftorfod, folgode Paulus, gefultumod þurh Stephanes gebedu
"Where Stephen went in front, stoned by the stones of Saul, there Paul
followed, helped by the prayers of Stephen".
"It is certain beyond all doubt that Ælfric was influenced by Latin
prose style; I cannot see how it could have been otherwise. But it is
equally important to realize that this powerful and moving sentence-
parallel yet doubly chiastic and with the effective contrast between Saul
and Paul – contains nothing which is not good Old English"[8].
It follows therefore that we must avoid the tendency to rush around
slapping the label "Latinism" on anything from our formed in advance
notions of the norms of ordinary speech.
Definite Adjective Clauses
Definite adjective clauses are those which refer to one particular
antecedent. E.g. "This is the man who did it" as opposed to indefinite
clauses whose antecedent is unspecified. E.g. "Whoever did it, will be
caught". As in Latin, relative pronoun agrees with its antecedent
(expressed or implied) in number and gender, but takes its case from the
adjective clauses. There are various ways of expressing it in OE.
1) The indeclinable particle þe is very common when the relative is
the subject. E.g. Ic geseah þa englas þe eower gymdon "I say the angels
who took care of you".
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