At 6:37:14 PM on Friday, September 26, 2008, Andrew Jarrette
wrote:
[...]
> The citation <boðle> (dat. sg.) occurs in Bede's writings,
Apparently Bosworth & Toller didn't draw on the OE Bede, at
least in the <botl> entry. Aha: they do show <boðle> as a
variant of <bolde> in one source in the supplementary entry
for <bold>.
> and according to A. Campbell, the place-name <Bothel> in
> Cumberland is representative of this word.
Yes, though unfortunately the first attestation isn't until
~1125 (as <Bothle>).
I suppose that it's not kosher to point to the annal 'Anno
MMII Solmonað, iii d' in Anthony Appleyard's 'The New
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle':
Her wæs eorþstyren æt Sultandagi ond Bolvadin in Afyon
scire in Turclande ond his miht wæs Richter 6, ond .xlv.
aswulton oððe maran ond .cxx. wurdon gewundode ond .c.
boðl feollon oððe ma, ac bi Godes miltse wæs dæg ond
manige wæron utan in feldum.
<
http://www.kuroyumes-developmentzone.com/appleyard/nasc/nasc.htm#YEARS>,
specifically
<
http://www.kuroyumes-developmentzone.com/appleyard/nasc/nasc2002.htm>.
Brian