CLAIM / COUNTERCLAIM / LIMITRECORD 748
DISPUTE
RECORD.
One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
resolvedestablished
Can heti be pinned to one exact birthplace?
No. The Heliand poetic origin is unresolved, its witnesses traveled through distinct manuscript contexts, and the Genesis and confession records are not one production event.
WORD UNDER REVIEWDISPUTE 748
heti
not directly recoverable · Old Saxon masculine i-stem noun
Old Saxon heti is an attested noun, not a reconstructed Proto-Germanic form. Köbler prints the normalized citation form hėti* with a trailing asterisk, then gives three cited lexical loci whose inflections produce five witness readings: accusative singular heti at Heliand 1322 in manuscripts M, C, and V; dative singular heti at Genesis 60; and genitive singular hetias in the tenth-century Saxon Confession. No nominative singular appears in that inventory, but the exact surface heti is visibly written in Munich Cgm 25. The directly inspected Heliand line places the noun in the Beatitudes, where righteous people endure rîkioro manno heti endi harmquidi, powerful men's hostility or persecution and hostile speech. The Saxon Confession instead places hetias beside malice, envy, and slander among confessed wrongs. Those contexts establish a range broader than one private feeling without proving that persecution was the prehistoric root meaning. Fulk and Köbler analyze the Old Saxon comparison as an i-stem; Pfeifer describes the wider Germanic noun as an old es/os-stem, so the inherited morphological account remains public rather than falsely harmonized.
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 01supportsdigitized primary source
Heliand — BSB Cgm 25, scan 41, folio 20r, heti locus
Provides one manuscript location without identifying the lexeme's origin.
Cgm 25 catalog attribution and witness image- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Bayerische Staatsbibliothek · Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum
- YEAR
- 875
- PUBLISHER
- Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
SOURCE 02contextmanuscript catalog
London, British Library, Cotton MS Caligula A VII — Heliand and a charm
Adds a separate transmission place and object date.
Cotton Heliand catalog- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project · Biblissima
- YEAR
- 975
- PUBLISHER
- Biblissima+ · British Library
02 / EDITORIAL STATE
THE CURRENT RECORD IS RESOLVED.
- CONFIDENCE
- established
- STATUS
- resolved
- LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY
- Textual and object layers do not support one coordinate for the lexeme's origin.
RESOLUTION NOTEOnly the Corvey catalog attribution receives an approximate point.