36. Now Eline the husbande's huswife has Cour'd a' her grief and harms; She's mither to a noble queen That sleeps in a kingis arms. GLOSSARY. St. 1. Wold, a wood; woody fastness. Husbande, from the Dan. hos, with, and bonde, a villain, or bondsman, who was a cultivator of the ground, and could not quit the estate to which he was attached, without the permission of his lord. This is the sense of the word, in the old Scottish records. In the Scottish 66 Burghe Laws," translated from the Reg. Majest. (Auchinleck MS. in the Adv. Lib.) it is used indiscriminately with the Dan. and Swed. bonde. Bigg, build. Ligg, lie. 2. Shaw, wood. Sairly, sorely. 3. Aik, oak. Grousome, terrible. Bald, bold. Kipples, (couples,) beams joined at the top, for supporting a roof, in building. Bawks, balks; cross beams. Moil, laborious industry. Speer'd, asked. Knock, hillock. 5. Weiest, smallest. Crean'd, shrunk, diminished ; from the Gaëlic, crian, very small. Immert, emmit; ant. Christian, used in the Danish ballads, &c. in contradistinction to demoniac, as it is in England, in contradistinc tion to brute; in which sense, a person of the lower class in England, would call a Jew or a Turk, a Christian. Fley, frighten. 6. Glowr'd, stared. Hald, hold. 7. Skugg, shade. 8. Nighed, approached. Scraichs, screams. 11. Winnock, window. 12. Coost, cast. Chalmer, chamber. Maist, most. Ava, of all. 13. Norwart, northward. Trow, believe. 14. Braids, strides quickly forward. Wad, would. 15. Canny, adroit. Mony, many. Waled, well chosen. 17. An, if. Bide, abide. 18. Nagate, nowise. 19. Couth, could, knew how to. Lat be, let alone. Gude, goods; property. 20. Aneath, beneath. Dwalling-stead,dwelling-place. 21. Sary, sorrowful. Rede, counsel; consultation. Forfairn, forlorn; lost; gone. Tyne, (verb neut.) be lost; perish. 22. Will of rede, bewildered in thought; in the Danish original " vildraadige;" Lat. "inops consilii ;” Gr. απορων. This expression is left among the desiderata in the Glossary to Ritson's Romances, and has never been explained. It is obsolete in the Danish as well as in English. Fare, go. 23. Rud, red of the cheek. Clem'd, in the Danish, klemt; (which, in the north of England, is still in use, as the word starvedis with us ;) brought to a dying state. 24. Waefu, woeful. Rew, take ruth; pity. Fa, (Isl. Dan. and Swed.) Mold, mould; earth. Mat, mote; might. El, an elf. This term, in the 26. "and mindte hende först og anden gang;- Mand kunde med oyen see. 28. Stound, hour; time; mo ment. 29. Merry, (old Teut. meré,) famous; renowned; answering, in its etymological meaning, exactly to the Latin mactus. Hence merrymen, as the address of a chief to his followers; meaning, not men of mirth, but of renown. The term is found in its original sense in the Gaël. marâ, and the Welsh mawr, great; and in the oldest Teut. Romances, mar, mer, and mere, have sometimes the same signification. 31. Mends, amends; recompence. 33. Maik, match; peer; equal. Propine, pledge; gift. 35. öe, an island of the second magnitude; an island of the first magnitude being called a land, and one of the third magnitude a holm. 36. Cour'd, recover'd. VOL. IV. |