Transcriber's Note

[122]XLI.Cf.Bruce, xx. 486, 487.

[123]Ed. S.T.S.

[124]Cf.alsoPreface, pp. vii-viii.

[125]Untersuchungen über das schottische Alexanderbuch.Albert Hermann, Halle, 1893, pp. 26, 27.

[126]As cited, p. 35.

[127]As cited, p. 45.

[128]Cf.p. 292.

[129]Pp. 43-47.

[130]P. 56.

[131]P. 162.

[132]P. 448.

[133]TheBruce, I. 160;Alexander, 8, 8;Wyntoun, Book viii. chap. ii. 246;Brown, p. 110.

[134]The Wallace and The Bruce Restudied, p. 92.

[135]I. 521-8.

[136]Bruce, I. 529-548;Monk’s Tale, Group B., 3821-3908.

[137]P. 98.

[138]P. 99.

[139]P. 97, note.

[140]I. 548, 549.

[141]3908.

[142]P. 99.

[143]3904-5.

[144]I. 549-561.

[145]P. 99.

[146]See note on passage.

[147]E.E.T.S.The Sowdone of Babylone,Introd., pp. xxxi, xxxii.

[148]See note.

[149]II. 534.

[150]P. 114.

[151]As cited, p. xxv.

[152]Pp. 115, 116.

[153]P. ix, note. The italics are mine.

[154]444.

[155]P. 115, note.

[156]“Genelyn,” 2843-6.

[157]P. ix, note.

[158]P. 461.

[159]665.

[160]Bruce, iii. 459.

[161]Hausknecht, note to line 665.

[162]Der Roman von Fierabras, Provensalisch, p. 5, line 15; Immanuel Bekker, Berlin, 1829.

[163]c. 1420.

[164]Brown, p. 117.

[165]Gregory Smith,The Transition Period, p. 8.

[166]P. 211.

[167]P. 118.

[168]Pp. 252-3.

[169]Ed. 1598, fol. 381.

[170]P. 119.

[171]P. 125.

[172]P. 126. See notes on passage.

[173]P. 127.

[174]P. 126.

[175]Wyntoun.

[176]The Bruce, &c., p. 126.

[177]Cf., however, on XX. 181.

[178]171-177.

[179]Sounded as yet, like those of M.E., but in time to become silent. Anglo-French is Norman-French developed in England; it was closely related to Old French, familiar to the scribes through the romances.

[180]Buss,Anglia IX., pp. 505-507.Cf.also Murray,Dialect of the Southern Counties, p. 53.

[181]Buss, p. 509.

[182]S.T.S., I. lxxxix., and Glossary.

[183]Murray,Dialect of the Southern Counties, p. 153.

[184]Darstellung der Flexionslehre in John Barbour’s Bruce, p. 12.

[185]Murray, p. 185.

[186]Specimens of Middle Scots, p. xxxviii.

[187]Specimens of Early English, Morris and Skeat, vol. ii.

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