[i]A representative assembly or court of judgment.
[ii]An outlaw for whose slaying there was a reward, or at least no penalty.
[iii]A curved, one-edged sword or war knife.
[iv]The "Saga of Beowulf" was the great popular poem of the Saxon races, and as well known to them as the legends of Robin Hood to us. The principal episode is the hero's victory over the marsh fiend Grendel.
[v]Crowland in Lincolnshire, where the saint founded his monastery.
[vi]Like the Highland "fiery cross", the signal for rising in arms.
[vii]The most contemptuous term that could be applied to a Saxon. Its exact force is lost, but may be expressed by "worth nothing."
[viii]The border of cleared land round a forest settlement, across which in times of war none might come without sound of horn in warning.
[ix]The "Saga of Beowulf" as we have it is the work of a Christian editor of King Alfred's time.
[x]A corselet or coat of mail.