FOOTNOTES:

[A]

Hilda is the Latinised form, which it is a pity to use instead of the English one.

[B]

blow.

[C]

I have not, of course, forgotten the mission of St Paulinus; but, as history shows, this does not affect the question here. Glow and fervour permeate life, and literature being its outcome could not but keep the mark of what had been set upon that life.

[D]

Translation by Miss Kate Warren.

[E]