Obs. Also briþeling, brotheling. [f. BRETHEL + -ing: cf. ATHEL-ING.] = BRETHEL.
c. 1275. O. E. Misc., 184. Þral vnbuxsum, Aþeling briþeling, Lond wiðute laȝe.
c. 1320. Syr Bevis, 2067. Beues wente alse a bretheling.
c. 1330. Arth. & Merl., 164. Our princes … seyd, that her king Nas bot a bretheling.
15[?]. in Furniv., Percy Folio, I. 426. Their young king was but a brotherlinge.
