A brief note on Britons and wealhstodas -- new post by me on an intriguing OE word :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/02/a-brief-note-on-britons-and-wealhstodas.html …pic.twitter.com/hr8ZWzNAGh
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Welsh MS image in post from https://www.llgc.org.uk/?id=256 Reads 'Gwrhyr Gwalstawd [=wealhstod] Ieithoedd—he knew all languages', from Culhwch :)
A later medieval Welsh use of gwalstot (< OE wealhstod) as an office, from 1 November 1399: http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/patentrolls/h4v1/body/Henry4vol1page0139.pdf …pic.twitter.com/4bvF3adcuc
Finally, J.R.R. Tolkien on the meaning+origins of OE wealhstod from his "English and Welsh": http://faculty.smu.edu/bwheeler/tolkien/online_reader/T-English&Welsh.PDF …pic.twitter.com/TnqzYiGHOI
Margaret Faull's section on OE wealhstod from her 'The Semantic Development of Old English wealh' (1975): http://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/133/1/LSE1975_pp20-44_Faull_article.pdf …pic.twitter.com/esVUFLBUbH
@caitlinrgreen Gwalstod is a great word. A fave loanword is Betws <OE bed-hus.
@Cyntefin Yes, absolutely--another great borrowing for OE! :)
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