FOOTNOTES
[1] Owen Pugh's Elegies of Lewarch Hen, Pref., p. 46. The place of these meetings was set apart by forming a circle of stones round the Maen Gorsedd, or Stone of the Gorsedd.
[2] See Editor's Notes at the end of the Volume. Wherever a similar reference occurs, the reader will understand that the same direction applies.
[3] Graffs-lust—i. e., Count's-delight.
[4] A private soldier of the German infantry.
[5] The chivalry of Cornwall are generally undervalued in the Norman-French romances. The cause is difficult to discover.
[6] Double-walkers, a name in Germany for those aërial duplicates of humanity who represent the features and appearance of other living persons.
[7] Louis XI. was probably the first king of France who flung aside all affectation of choosing his ministers from among the nobility. He often placed men of mean birth in situations of the highest trust.
[9] This is one of the best and most popular of the German ditties:—
"Am Rhein, am Rhein, da wachsen unsere Reben, Gesegnet sei der Rhein," &c.