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語源

From Old French bohort or German Buhurt (Low German Buhurd), ultimately from Middle Low German bohurt, burt, or Middle High German būhurt, bēhurt, later the term for a ”tournament-melee”, a medieval tournament game, in which mock combat is conducted between two groups of knights, alternatively a game in which an attack was made on a pretend fortress, but also a synonym for tournament in general.

Cognates includes Old Italian bohordicum; French bohourt (Old French behort, bohort, bohourt, bouhourd); Swedish bohord (Old Swedish bohordh, behordh); Icelandic burt (Old Norse burt). Also compare the verbal form (“to bohort”): Old French behorder, bohorder, bouhourder; Middle High German buhurdieren; Middle Low German borderen; Swedish bordera (Old Swedish bordera).

名詞

bohort (plural bohorts)

1. An early type of jousting competition in medieval Europe.
   • 2005, David Crouch, Tournament, page 113:

     Bohorts were the spontaneous amusements of the young. They were not in general formally arranged and organised; most bohorts just happened.

   • 2010, anonymous author, translated by Cyril Edwards, The Nibelungenlied, Oxford, page 170:

     When the kings, and also their vassals, came to their horses, mighty Volker advised that they should hold a bohort [translating bûhurdieren] according to their land's custom.

   • 2011, Ben Hubbard, Gladiators:

     Bohorts used either blunted weapons, mock weapons, or no weapons at all, and as such were safe enough to have the sanction of the Church.

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