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gold-smiþ

Noun, m., cl. 1

Att. sp.: goldsmiþ, goldsmið, golsmiþ (ÆColl) || goldsmiðes || goldsmiþe || goldsmiðas; goldsmiðes (nom.pl., Rec 20.1)

15 occ.

goldsmith

Met 10.33: hwær sint nu þæs wisan Welandes ban, þæs goldsmiðes, þe wæs geo mærost? (Bo 19.46.16 þæs foremeran & þæs wisan goldsmiðes ban Welondes; cf. BOETH. Cons.Phil.metr. 2.7.15 ubi nunc fidelis ossa Fabricii manent?).

ÆCHom I, 4 209.92: ealle þas goldsmiðas secgað þæt hi næfre ær swa clæne gold ne swa read ne gesawon (cf. Vit.Iohan. 2.57.2 omnium aurificum <officinas> circuiuimus, et omnes dixerunt tam purum ... se nunquam uidisse aurum).

Gen 4.22: be Sellan he gestrynde Tubalcain, se wæs ægðer ge goldsmið ge irensmið (L slecgwirhta & smið on eallum weorcum <æres & ysenes> [MS ærest of ysene]; cf. Gn: malleator et faber in cuncta opera aeris et ferri).

Ch 1497 50: and freoge mon Man hire goldsmið, & his eldestan sunu.

Ch 543 1.1: þis his þas anes hiwisces boc at Winterburnan, & ðas oþres hiwisces on Whit þe þærto hyrþ, þe Eadred cyng gebocode Ælfsige his goldsmiþe on eche hyfte.

Rec 9.3 1: her is on þysse Crystesbec siu geswytelung þære healfre hyde æt Pottune þe Ælfhelm Leofsige sealde hys goldsmiþe.

Rec 20.1 1: Ælfric and Wulfwine Eadgife goldsmiðes geafen to broþerrædenne twegen orn weghenes goldes þæt is on þis ilce boc her foruten gewired.

ÆColl 205: habeo fabros, ferrarios, aurificem, argentarium, ęrarium, lignarium et multos alios uariarum artium operatores ic hæbbe smiþas, <isensmiþas>, goldsmiþ, seoloforsmiþ, arsmiþ, treowwyrhtan & manegra oþre mistlicra cræfta biggenceras.

ÆGl 301.15: aurifex goldsmið.

ClGl 1 498: aurifex goldsmið (perh. from ISID. Etym. 19.1.2 artifex generale nomen vocatur quod artem faciat, sicut aurifex qui aurum [facit]).

ClGl 2 515: aurifex goldsmiþ.

AntGl 4 1289: aurifex goldsmið (perh. from ISID. Etym. 19.1.2 quoted above).

Fort 72: sumum wundorgiefe þurh goldsmiþe gearwad <weorþað>; ful oft he gehyrdeð ond gehyrsteð wel, brytencyninges beorn (‘for some marvellous gifts are prepared by the goldsmith’; the word has alternatively been taken as an otherwise unattested compound *goldsmiþu or *goldsmīþ, synonymous with ON gullsmíþ ‘goldsmithery, goldsmith's art / work’).

a.	glossing ferrarius ‘blacksmith’ as if aurifex ‘goldsmith’

ÆColl 231: ferrarius respondit se golsmiþ andwyrt (cf. ÆColl 205 quoted above).

Lat. equiv. in MS: aurifex