BOOK VI.
3 the Umphrevell. See Bk. V. 483, 513, etc.
69 Gilbert de la Hay. See note on Bk. II. 237.
120 “Since he was provided with armour.”
121 thurt. “Needed.” The word occurs once in Morte Arthure, in the present impersonal: “Hym thare be ferde (afraid) for no faces” (403). Cf. also Bk. VIII. 257.
128 For litill strynth of erd. “On account of a slight natural defence in the character of the ground.”
149 fiff-sum. “Five together.” The compound is still familiar in Scotland—e.g., a “three-some reel,” a “four-some” in golf. Cf. “sex-sum” in line 231.
179 The story is from the Thebaid of Statius through some intermediate source which cannot now be identified. See Appendix F, § iv.
195-6 “First the one should reign a year, then the other for a year from the expiry of the previous term,” and so on.