TY - JOUR
AU - English, Mark
AB - 2014 NOTES AND QUERIES 11 Interesting that tæfl, ‘gaming board, board Aurelius has travelled generally north-east- game’, and teosol, ‘die, pl. dice’, are Latin loan- ward across Britain to reach Conisbrough, words. Etymological derivation is not a safe and since Hengistus’ power-base is north of guide to the spread of vices or the incidence the Humber, we might suppose that Geoffrey of virtue. Rome housed both, and as we con- imagined Hengistus as retreating from Mais- template the Germanic lust of gambling it is beli northward or north-eastward to escape good to feel that it was well understood that Aurelius and reach Conisbrough. Alterna- when two sit at the gaming board throwing tively, Geoffrey might have seen Hengistus’ dice dishonour is at hand. move as a flight to the nearest stronghold re- E. G. STANLEY gardless of its direction, and indeed from his Pembroke College, Oxford narrative it sounds as if Maisbeli is not too far doi:10.1093/notesj/gjt272 from Conisbrough. So the internal evidence The Author (2014). Published by Oxford University Press. suggests that Maisbeli is most likely south or All rights reserved. For Permissions, south-west of Conisbrough, or close to it, or please email: journals.permissions@oup.com Advance Access publication 20 
TI - Maisbeli: A Place-Name Problem from Geoffrey of Monmouth
JF - Notes and Queries
DO - 10.1093/notesj/gjt236
DA - 2014-03-20
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/maisbeli-a-place-name-problem-from-geoffrey-of-monmouth-ZlfCQhaBml
SP - 11
EP - 13
VL - 61
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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