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OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE IMAGE WAS CHECKED.
The Electronic Beowulf folio image was directly inspected after using its line control to align Beowulf 2289 with folio 180v. The pixels visibly preserve feondes before fotlast. This establishes an inflected written form and local foe context; it does not establish the poem’s composition date, first use, complete Old English semantics, or deeper ancestry.
Old Englishlate 10th or early 11th centuryestablished
fēond
Beowulf manuscript, foe’s footprint
“stearcheort onfand feondes fotlast”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Manuscript
- YEAR
- 1000
- LOCATOR
- Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, fol. 180v, manuscript line 15; Beowulf 2289
- REPOSITORY
- British Library
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, fol. 180v
- FACSIMILE
- Linked below
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- Yes
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERfēond ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 1166 ↗
INSPECTED FACSIMILEOPEN OBJECT ↗
01
REPEATABLE VISUAL REVIEW
THE INSPECTION LEDGER
OBSERVED FORMfeondes
“stearcheort onfand feondes fotlast”
- INSPECTION DATE
- 2026-08-27
- METHOD
- visual facsimile
- INSPECTOR ROLE
- SET-U editorial review
- EXACT LOCATOR
- Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, fol. 180v, manuscript line 15; Electronic Beowulf alignment at verse 2289
- CLAIM LIMIT
- Verifies the visible manuscript sequence feondes fotlast after Electronic Beowulf aligns verse 2289 to folio 180v. The object supports a genitive-singular enemy or foe reading in local context; it does not establish an earliest use, the poem’s composition date, the full semantic inventory, modern fiend’s later narrowing, or reconstructed ancestry.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, folio 180v — Electronic Beowulf facsimile
- AUTHOR
- British Library · Kevin Kiernan, editor
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- British Library · University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences
- SOURCE TYPE
- digitized primary source
- CITATION KEY
- electronic-beowulf-180v