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Butting-tún

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Butting-tún, es; m.
BODDINGTON, Gloucestershire
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  • Offóron hie ðone here hindan æt Buttingtúne on Sæferne staðe

    they followed after the army to Boddington on the bank of the Severn,

    • Chr. 894
      • ;
    • Erl. 92, 22
      • .
Mr. Earle has the following pertinent note on the locality: Two places have hitherto contended for this site, viz. Boddington near Cheltenham, and Buttington in Montgomeryshire, near Welshpool. But Mr. Ormerod [
  • Archæologia, vol. XXIX
    • ; and
  • Strigulensia, p. 60
] has put forward a claim for Buttinton in Tidenham, on the peninsula formed by the Severn and the Wye. There are traces of works here, though less considerable than those at Buttington in Montgomeryshire. Mr. Ormerod grounds his claim mainly upon Matthew of Westminster's 'paganos tam navali quam terrestri exercitu circumcinxit.' No such thing appears in the text before us, but to the opposite effect. One is almost tempted to suspect thatthis 'Verwirrer der Geschichte' [as Lappenberg calls Matthew of Westminster] caught sight of 'sciphere' in the next line, and imagined the rest. But it must be allowed, Mr. Ormerod's position has its advantages. It does not, however, suit 'ðá up be Sæferne,' if this means that they went up stream, which would seem to be its meaning, though not in Florence,
  • Chr. Erl. notes, p. 318
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Bosworth, Joseph. “Butting-tún.” 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/5518.

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