Detail of 16thC Lincolnshire, Ortelius's 1579 map--interesting which places he chose to mark! http://sites.oxy.edu/horowitz/Ortelius/ortelius7/scebo-0007c.html …pic.twitter.com/f7UGlyT4OY
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@NoNonperson 'Tostei', perhaps? Spellings of Boston vary a lot in medieval period!! ;)
@caitlinrgreen well it looks to be vaguely in the right place but doesn't sound right :-\ I bow to your superior knowledge though :-)
@NoNonperson Boston='-stan' name, so might be -'steinn' in local Scandinavianised dialect, w/ 'n' dropped? & then T+B confused via the -t-?!
@caitlinrgreen sound plausible..... You make me feel so old, I studied all this age 17 doing A level English language, so so so long ago!
@NoNonperson Lol! Sorry! :) utter guesswork of course! Nothing like form in early sources, but Lincoln becomes Nichol in med sources, so...!
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