That charter is sort of vital, IMO, because it'd be weird for English to begin borrowing such a concept from French during C16. Scottish English, perhaps, but not English English. But before ~1360, French makes perfect sense. There were a bunch of attempts to codify what the crown got to slice off between Richard I (r. 1189-1199) and Edward I (r. 1272-1307), which lead to little legal-term glossaries in some MSS containing the major charter sequence (some of which also contain my pet text); .
The French thing is tricky because a few words adduced as "from OF" or even MF existed only in insular French usage--French as spoken in England by multinational magnates and their households, partly. French lit didn't do epics (AFAweK) till Chanson de Roland, frex, which seems to have been produced first in England. So "lagan" may not even be borrowed, only derived, if that makes sense, which is why my interest was piqued....
gosh. I put "ewagio" into a web search--"ewage" is straight-up eau + -age, waterage. Here's a date for that charter bit: prepend books dot google dot com and a slash to books?id=6y8a-rOm7D0C&lpg=PA188&ots=5UHnpLnBr1&dq=ewagio&pg=PA188#v=onepage&q=ewagio&f=false because of LJ's linkblock. And here is the charter itself in an untrustworthy old edition: books?id=gkdPAAAAcAAJ&lpg=PA179&ots=OExcsGPeN1&dq=ewagio&pg=PA179#v=onepage&q=ewagio&f=false
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Date: 2013-01-24 04:58 pm (UTC)The French thing is tricky because a few words adduced as "from OF" or even MF existed only in insular French usage--French as spoken in England by multinational magnates and their households, partly. French lit didn't do epics (AFAweK) till Chanson de Roland, frex, which seems to have been produced first in England. So "lagan" may not even be borrowed, only derived, if that makes sense, which is why my interest was piqued....
gosh. I put "ewagio" into a web search--"ewage" is straight-up eau + -age, waterage. Here's a date for that charter bit: prepend books dot google dot com and a slash to books?id=6y8a-rOm7D0C&lpg=PA188&ots=5UHnpLnBr1&dq=ewagio&pg=PA188#v=onepage&q=ewagio&f=false because of LJ's linkblock. And here is the charter itself in an untrustworthy old edition: books?id=gkdPAAAAcAAJ&lpg=PA179&ots=OExcsGPeN1&dq=ewagio&pg=PA179#v=onepage&q=ewagio&f=false