FOOTNOTES
[9] [Some historic doubt has been thrown on this anecdote by St. Marc.[h]]
[10] The Norman writers and editors most conversant with their own idiom interpret Guiscard or Wiscard, by Callidus, a cunning man. The root “wise” is familiar to our ear; and in the old word “wiseacre” we can discern something of a similar sense and termination.
