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butsa-carlas

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Substitute: butse-carl (butsa-), es; m. A seaman. ['The " butsecarls" stand in the same relation to the "scip-fyrd" that the housecarls occupy towards the " land-fyrd "; i. e. they are the king's standing force, as opposed to the national levies. This seems clear from a passage in Domesday: " quando Rex ibat in expedhione uel terra uel mari, habebat de hoc burgo aut .xx. solidos ad pascendos suos buzecarlos, aut unum hominem ducebat secum pro honore . v. hidarum. "' Chr. P. ii. 239.]
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  • Þá butsecarlas (butsa-,

    v.l.

    ) hine forsócan.
      Chr. 1066 ; P. 197, 8, Hé
    nam of þám buttekarlon sume mid him, P. 196, 7.

  • Hé gespeón him tó ealle þá butsecarlas (-karlas) of Hæstingan,

      1052; P. 178, 25.
Etymology
[v. N. E. D. bus-carl, buss: Icel. buza a kind of ship.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “butsa-carlas.” 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/41165.

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