Link: https://mappingmetaphor.arts.gla.ac.uk/old-english/
Project Status: Complete
Mapping Metaphor is a project hosted by the University of Glasgow and represents the portion of the Mapping Metaphor project devoted particularly to the study of Old English. Deriving its data from the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, the project aims to provide useful data and data visualizations that map words and their usage as metaphors in Old English. The project presents over 70,000 metaphorical words in several visual formats. Users can also see which metaphorical words pair most frequently with a variety of statistical analyses.
The project has several tutorials and glossaries that teach a user how to use the database. Though the data itself is not available for download, the project includes several modes of searching its findings.
Resource details:
Resource Type: Catalog, Dictionary/Glossary, Images, Modern, Numeric Data, Searchable Database
License: Must provide credit, No Fee
Modern Language: English
Medieval content details:
Dates: 400 - 1600
Though primarily focused on Old English, the database extends past the medieval period, hence the broad date.
Subject: Early English Peoples, Early English Studies, Early Medieval England, Linguisitcs, Literature, Old English
Type/Genre of Medieval Primary Source Material: Textual Evidence
Geopolitical Region: British Isles and Ireland, England, Europe
Original Language: English, Old English