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þyle

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
þyle, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§386;
An orator, spokesman
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  • Gelǽred þyle fela spǽca mid feáwum wordum geopenaþ

    doctus orator plures sermones paucis verbis aperit,

    • Scint. 119, 3.

  • Þylas oratores,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 63, 1.
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  • Þyle is found in
    • Exon. Th. 320, 5
      • ;
    • Víd. 24
      • :

    -- Þyle weóld Rondingum.

  • ¶ In Beowulf the þyle of the Danish king is mentioned :

    -- Húnferþ þyle,

    • Beo. Th. 2335
      • ;
    • B. 1165.

  • Þyle Hróðgáres,

    • 2917
      • ;
    • B. 1456.
  • In two passages it is noted that he sat at his lord's feet

    Húnferð maþelode ðe æt fótum sæt freán Scyldinga,

    • 1002
      • ;
    • B. 499: 2335
      • ;
    • B. 1165.
    He is the only one of the courtiers who is actually stated to have addressed Beowulf, so that the duty of leading the conversation seems to have fallen to him. If a gloss in Wrt. Voc. ii. 25, 31-descurris hofðelum-may be read de scurris of ðelum ( = ðylum) or hofðylum, perhaps his function was something like that of the later court jester, and the style of his attack on Beowulf hardly contradicts the supposition.
Etymology
[
Icel. þulr; cf. þylja to say, chant.
]
Similar entries
v. þyl-cræft.
Linked entries
v.  þele þyl-cræft.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “þyle.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/32405.

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