Um, sorry to keep piping up with OED, but these are interesting words. In this case I could've sworn I'd seen lagan mentioned re: wreck, which wouldn't be true were it really only 1530, and indeed OED2 adduces an English charter in Latin ca. 1200, which has "De ewagio de wrec et lagan."
(Amusingly probably only to me, OED2 s.v. wreck n.1. gives a longer bit from the same charter: "De ewagio de wrec et lagan et de omnibus aliis consuetudinibus.")
Incidentally, now I'm puzzled anent your source(s), since 1200 is contemporaneous with Old French. I mean, we have hardly any written OF before 1200 anyway; isn't MF from C14 or so?
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Date: 2013-01-24 06:54 am (UTC)(Amusingly probably only to me, OED2 s.v. wreck n.1. gives a longer bit from the same charter: "De ewagio de wrec et lagan et de omnibus aliis consuetudinibus.")
Incidentally, now I'm puzzled anent your source(s), since 1200 is contemporaneous with Old French. I mean, we have hardly any written OF before 1200 anyway; isn't MF from C14 or so?