At 9:01:02 on Friday, 16 April 2004, tgpedersen wrote:
> For England, Kuhn finds very few <-sta:n> names before
> 800. Later he finds an increasing number, among them (Gray
> Birch's Cartularium Saxonicum doc. 365) one <Tur-sta:n>.
Birch 365 is Sawyer 1190. At
<www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet?do=get&type=charter&id=1190> you
can read the whole thing. It's a Latin charter dated 819
('anno dominicæ incarnationis . dcccxix .'), but it's
considered to be a forgery, so its value as evidence is
questionable. (It's also the only charter in the New
Regesta Regum Anglorum to contain the name <Turstanus>.)
Brian