[356-2] What is cheer? What is festal cheer?

[356-3] What is a “train”? How could it be called a hospitable train? Whose train was it?

[356-4] What is a rite?

[356-5] What bells were rung?

[356-6] What is a mass?

[356-7] What is a stoled priest? What is a chalice? What did the priest do when he reared the chalice?

[356-8] The kirtle was a dress-skirt or outer petticoat. Sheen means gay or bright.

[357-9] What is mistletoe? Is there anything peculiar in its habits of growth? What did they want of it? What custom is still said to follow the use of mistletoe at Christmastime?

[357-10] A vassal was one of the followers of the baron and paid for protection or for lands he held by fighting in the baron’s troops or rendering some other service.

[357-11] A tenant held lands or houses, for which he paid some form of rent.