Endnotes

  1. Lit., “Bohemian Villages,” i.e., with unpronounceable names. ↩

  2. William, Duke of Aquitaine, and afterwards a Saint noted for the acerbity of his penances. ↩

  3. A proverb: on Saint Gertrude’s day spinning ceases and garden-work begins. ↩

  4. Viz. ihnen den Hintern zu lecken. ↩

  5. The commandments are here numbered according to the Roman arrangement, but the meaning is obscure. ↩

  6. The hermit. ↩

  7. I.e. full of innocence. ↩

  8. Given as an example of a Roman of luxurious tastes. ↩

  9. Refers to an episode omitted in this translation. ↩

  10. Allusion to a cruel practice in use in falconry. ↩

  11. Proverbial: an allusion to a popular story. ↩

  12. Lit. there are folk dwelling beyond the mountains too. ↩

  13. I.e., he was bewitched. ↩

  14. Hessian General. ↩

  15. It is difficult to translate the German expression. Probably this word, meaning a maritime trader in illicit wares, represents it best. ↩

  16. Obscure lines: many of the expressions in this chapter are now inexplicable. ↩

  17. He wrote the words down as he was told as if they meant the judge’s mother. ↩

  18. The cuirass would be well lined to prevent chafing. ↩

  19. Some 120 years before. ↩

  20. Besieged by the Spaniards from to . ↩

  21. A kind of Eldorado. ↩

  22. The famous cavalry commander of the Imperialists. ↩

  23. The musketeer supported his piece on a prop or stake. ↩

  24. See chap. III. ↩

  25. Viz. Lippstadt. ↩

  26. The initials only of the name are given in the original. ↩

  27. The pastor was “Reformed” (i.e. Calvinist). ↩

  28. I.e., at the Antipodes: “at the other end of the world.” ↩

  29. Referring to a body of Breton troops sent by Richelieu to help Guébriant. They turned out worthless. ↩

  30. “Bearskinner” was the troopers’ name for a malingerer. It was taken from a very old legend. ↩

  31. The allusion is to the escape of the robber-knight, Eppelin von Gailingen, from the Castle of Nuremberg. ↩

  32. In the retainers of the Bishop of Hildesheim and the Abbot of Fulda fought in church at Goslar, and much bloodshed ensued. ↩

  33. Act as a usurer or cheat. ↩

  34. He may possibly mean the three old fortifications of which ruins still remain: Schwaben-, Schweden-, and Alexander-schanze; all of which are close to his favourite spa at Griesbach. ↩

  35. See chap. XI above. ↩

  36. This was “Courage,” the heroine of some of Grimmelshausen’s later romances. ↩

  37. Unknown. ↩

  38. The jest is now unintelligible. ↩

  39. It was really Christian of Brunswick, marching to join Mansfeld. ↩

  40. “Goblin” or rather “bogey” lake. ↩

  41. D’Enghien. ↩

  42. A hedge schoolmaster. ↩

  43. Offa. Offenburg. ↩

  44. Baiersbronn. ↩

  45. Literally “a Bohemian ear-picker.” ↩