Ynys Vel; one of the old Welch names for England.

[6.—Page 227, stanza lxv.]

"A witch."—"All women till they're wed are witches!

The witch Mourge, or Morgana (historically Anna), was Arthur's sister.

[7.—Page 228, stanza lxxiv.]

Loud neigh'd the destrier at the welcome clang.

Destrier;—This word has been objected to, but it is so familiarly used by our Anglo-Norman minstrels, as well as by the great Masters of romantic poetry, that I have ventured, though not without diffidence, to retain it. Montaigne, in his chapter on "the Warhorses called Destriers," derives the word from the Latin Dextrarius.


NOTES TO BOOK III.

[1.—Page 243, stanza xlviii.]