36. What were “cross-bolts”? (Short, blunt arrows fired from the cross-bows.)
37. What is a Saracen? (Here the word means merely a Mohammedan hostile to the Christians.) What does “rode like corn” mean? (We rode through their ranks as we would ride through corn.)
38. What is the meaning of “fain”? (Willing.)
39. What does “fell” mean? (Deadly.)
40. What is meant by “Make in”? (Here it means, “Gather together.”)
41. What was the “rain”? What was the “swarm”?
42. What had happened to Saint Claire?
43. What was James’s purpose in holding aloft the heart of Bruce?
44. Why did he throw the sacred relic before him? What does “wert wont of yore” mean? (“As you used to do.”)
45. What is the meaning of “stour”? (Battle or combat.) Why are the spears said to come in “shivering”?