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Towords the Orthography of the Old-Czech Legends in Verse of the Luxembourgian Era
Homolková, Milada
The preserved texts of five legends in verse, namely the Legends of St. Dorothea, St. George, St. Catherine (the so-called Lesser or Brno Legend), St. Margaret and the Legend of Ten Thousand Knights, represent a valuable source also for the research of the Old-Czech orthography development. The initial part of the article provides a commented list of all sources of these legends (1) and the scientific reflection of their orthography in the editions is characterised (2). The interpretation itself concentrates at first on a comparison of the orthography of two undated sources of the legend of St. George and St. Catherine (3). Further on, the attention is focused on two graphical phenomena, recording of the palatal /ň/ (4) and of sibilants, that cause interpretation problems. After the commented survey of the graphemes used for sibilants in the Legend of Ten Thousand Knights (5), the questionable significance of the written rs, r, zs and s in the particular texts is investigated (6), in the end the ambiguity of the Old-Czech graphics in relationship to the variance of the lexical form is illustrated by several examples (7).
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