FOOTNOTES:[1]PronouncedMootter.[2]PronouncedBrooder.[3]Thus we haveWednesday= the day of Woden or Odin.[4]Jutlandmeans theland of the Jutes;nottheland that juts out.[5]The division calledWessexincludedHampshire,Wiltshire,Berkshire,Somersetshire,Dorsetshire,Gloucestershire, andDevonshire.[6]The Revival of Letters, or the Renascence (orRenaissance), is the name given to the new enthusiasm which seized Italians, Germans, Frenchmen, and Englishmen, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, to read the great treasures of literature that may be found in Greek and Latin books.[7]The same root exists inmonarch, a person who rules alone.[8]Two-languaged.[9]What is calledthe feudal systemwas based upon war. A knight held land of his baron; a baron of his king—on condition of bringing so many men into the field on the summons of his overlord.[10]Low Latinis the name for that kind of corruption of Latin which was written and spoken after the breaking up of the Roman Empire in the fifth century.[11]Asynonymis a word that has thesame meaningas another word; likebeginandcommence;willandtestament. There are very few real synonyms in English; because when the language acquired a word of similar meaning, it at once set to work to use it in a differentway, or to give it a differentfunction, or to bestow on it a different tone, colouring, or shade.[12]He might have saidhallandbower. In the old English times, thehallwas the outer room of the cottage, into which the front door opened, andbowerwas the inner room.[13]Alicheorlykeoriginally meantbody.[14]Ayenbite=againbite. Theagaincorresponds to thereinremorse.[15]In head-rhymes, two or three words in each line begin with the same letter.[16]The highest value.[17]Carriage.[18]Unbecoming or unkind thing.[19]Kind of person.[20]Very perfect gentle.[21]Dress.[22]Gaily dressed.
FOOTNOTES:
[1]PronouncedMootter.
[1]PronouncedMootter.
[2]PronouncedBrooder.
[2]PronouncedBrooder.
[3]Thus we haveWednesday= the day of Woden or Odin.
[3]Thus we haveWednesday= the day of Woden or Odin.
[4]Jutlandmeans theland of the Jutes;nottheland that juts out.
[4]Jutlandmeans theland of the Jutes;nottheland that juts out.
[5]The division calledWessexincludedHampshire,Wiltshire,Berkshire,Somersetshire,Dorsetshire,Gloucestershire, andDevonshire.
[5]The division calledWessexincludedHampshire,Wiltshire,Berkshire,Somersetshire,Dorsetshire,Gloucestershire, andDevonshire.
[6]The Revival of Letters, or the Renascence (orRenaissance), is the name given to the new enthusiasm which seized Italians, Germans, Frenchmen, and Englishmen, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, to read the great treasures of literature that may be found in Greek and Latin books.
[6]The Revival of Letters, or the Renascence (orRenaissance), is the name given to the new enthusiasm which seized Italians, Germans, Frenchmen, and Englishmen, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, to read the great treasures of literature that may be found in Greek and Latin books.
[7]The same root exists inmonarch, a person who rules alone.
[7]The same root exists inmonarch, a person who rules alone.
[8]Two-languaged.
[8]Two-languaged.
[9]What is calledthe feudal systemwas based upon war. A knight held land of his baron; a baron of his king—on condition of bringing so many men into the field on the summons of his overlord.
[9]What is calledthe feudal systemwas based upon war. A knight held land of his baron; a baron of his king—on condition of bringing so many men into the field on the summons of his overlord.
[10]Low Latinis the name for that kind of corruption of Latin which was written and spoken after the breaking up of the Roman Empire in the fifth century.
[10]Low Latinis the name for that kind of corruption of Latin which was written and spoken after the breaking up of the Roman Empire in the fifth century.
[11]Asynonymis a word that has thesame meaningas another word; likebeginandcommence;willandtestament. There are very few real synonyms in English; because when the language acquired a word of similar meaning, it at once set to work to use it in a differentway, or to give it a differentfunction, or to bestow on it a different tone, colouring, or shade.
[11]Asynonymis a word that has thesame meaningas another word; likebeginandcommence;willandtestament. There are very few real synonyms in English; because when the language acquired a word of similar meaning, it at once set to work to use it in a differentway, or to give it a differentfunction, or to bestow on it a different tone, colouring, or shade.
[12]He might have saidhallandbower. In the old English times, thehallwas the outer room of the cottage, into which the front door opened, andbowerwas the inner room.
[12]He might have saidhallandbower. In the old English times, thehallwas the outer room of the cottage, into which the front door opened, andbowerwas the inner room.
[13]Alicheorlykeoriginally meantbody.
[13]Alicheorlykeoriginally meantbody.
[14]Ayenbite=againbite. Theagaincorresponds to thereinremorse.
[14]Ayenbite=againbite. Theagaincorresponds to thereinremorse.
[15]In head-rhymes, two or three words in each line begin with the same letter.
[15]In head-rhymes, two or three words in each line begin with the same letter.
[16]The highest value.
[16]The highest value.
[17]Carriage.
[17]Carriage.
[18]Unbecoming or unkind thing.
[18]Unbecoming or unkind thing.
[19]Kind of person.
[19]Kind of person.
[20]Very perfect gentle.
[20]Very perfect gentle.
[21]Dress.
[21]Dress.
[22]Gaily dressed.
[22]Gaily dressed.