Glossary

Accoll

Embrace.

Adree

Apart.

Athel

Of noble birth.

Splendid.

Beam

Child, man.

Boun

Adj., ready, setting out.

Verb, make ready, start.

Brawden

Made of links.

Burd

Maid (as in “burd Helen”).

Capados

Short tunic (from Cappadocia).

Carol

A ring-dance.

Disport

Entertainment.

Dree

Verb, to endure.

Adj., persistent, steadfast.

Druery

Love or love-token.

Ettle

Intend, aim.

Fey

Doomed.

Foreward

Covenant.

Fraunchise

Noble disposition.

Free

Knight or lady.

Gersom

Treasure.

Gisarm

Battle-axe.

Glede

Live coal.

Grame

Mortification.

Graith

Ready.

Graithe

Make ready, array.

Graithly

Readily, properly.

Halch

Embrace, entwine.

Handsel

Lucky omen, New Year’s gift.

Hap

Cover, wrap up.

Haulm

Handle.

Kind

Natural character (out of kind = degenerate).

Laik

Play.

Launce

Utter: intr., gallop.

Laund

Clearing in forest.

Learn

Gleam.

Leer

Face.

Lout

Bow.

Meiny

Household, retainers.

Moot

Noun, note on horn.

Verb, speak, discuss.

Nick

Say “No” (lit. not I).

O’erwalted

Upset (dial, waut).

Price

Excellence of price, noble.

Prick

Go fast (prick and prance).

Prize

Blast announcing capture.

Quarry

The kill, set out after the hunt is over.

Raught

Offered (p.t. of reach)

Roan

Brake, thicket.

Rouncy

Riding horse.

Sain

Cross, bless.

Sendal

Fine silk.

Sickar

Trusty.

Slot

Dip of the breast.

Spirr

To question.

Stale

Handle.

Stoor

Stern, severe.

Stour

Commotion.

Tent

P.p., stretched.

To pay attention to.

Thro

Fierce.

Tressure

Wire network on which headdress was built up.

Unlace

Cut up.

Villainy

Discourtesy, lack of courtly manners.

Ware

Spend, esp. with economy.

Weird

Fate.

Wight

Doughty (so “Wallace wight” in Scott).

Wone

Dwell.

Yern

Pass by (same word as “run”).