CLAIM / COUNTERCLAIM / LIMITRECORD 723
DISPUTE
RECORD.
One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
resolvedestablished
Does the Cotton manuscript date equal the Heliand composition date?
No. Biblissima dates the copy to the middle or second half of the tenth century; the Heliand work itself is earlier.
WORD UNDER REVIEWDISPUTE 723
hatōn
not directly recoverable · Old Saxon class-II weak verb
The normalized Old Saxon weak-verb lemma hatōn is supported by a four-locus dictionary inventory: Heliand 1451 writes infinitive hatan in manuscript M and haton in manuscript C; Heliand 4915 writes genitive-plural present-participial hatandiero in M and hettendero in C; manuscript C supplies preterite hatoda at Heliand 5423; and GlG supplies infinitive haton aligned with Latin odisse. Those are six witness readings at four cited loci, not six independent lexemes or four manuscripts. The first Munich infinitive and the Munich hatandiero locus were directly inspected. The category problem is deeper than spelling: Köbler also indexes the Heliand 4915 forms under the separate agent noun hėttiand, enemy. The record therefore exposes the exact point where a live participial form and a lexicalized enemy noun overlap. It does not prove that pursue was the root meaning, that every enemy hates, or that every indexed form belongs unambiguously to one synchronic category.
01DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
2 SOURCES WITH A STANCE
A citation is not a vote. Each record says whether the work supports, challenges, contradicts, or contextualizes the position—and identifies the exact locus used.
SOURCE 01supportsmanuscript catalog
London, British Library, Cotton MS Caligula A VII — Heliand and a charm
Provides the Cotton object chronology.
Description: Heliand copied in England in the middle or second half of the tenth century- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project · Biblissima
- YEAR
- 975
- PUBLISHER
- Biblissima+ · British Library
SOURCE 02contextdigitized primary source
Heliand — BSB Cgm 25, scan 45, folio 22r, hatan locus
Provides the distinct work-level chronology.
Item description: Heliand work created around 830/840- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Bayerische Staatsbibliothek · Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum
- YEAR
- 875
- PUBLISHER
- Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
02 / EDITORIAL STATE
THE CURRENT RECORD IS RESOLVED.
- CONFIDENCE
- established
- STATUS
- resolved
- LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY
- The manuscript catalog and MDZ item description provide two different chronological layers.
RESOLUTION NOTEJourney and witness records keep text and object clocks separate.