Common as the word is in Wace, I have never found any other instance of its use (i.e. by him) in a metaphorical sense, nor, if there is one, has Mr Archer attempted to produce it.
[11] Infra, pp. 313-18.
[12] English Historical Review, ix. 260.
[13] Norm. Conq., iii. 736-7.
[14] The word 'fenestres', for instance, which Mr Archer first rendered 'ash', out of deference to Mr Freeman and his predecessors, but subsequently 'windows' (English Historical Review, ix. 18), is either a corruption or quite inexplicable. 'If it pleases Mr Archer,' as I wrote (Ibid., 236), 'to construct a barricade, of which "windows" are the chief ingredient, on an uninhabited Sussex down, in 1066, he is perfectly welcome to do so.' I may add that the rendering adopted by the two French scholars does not in the least alter my view as to the improbability, or rather absurdity, of the suggestion.
[15] Ibid., ix. 244.
[16] Q.R., July 1893, p. 95.
[17] English Historical Review, ix. 251-3. I was careful to add that 'if it be claimed that his text is contradictory, this would but prove further how confused his mind really was as to the battle' (p. 252). Mr Archer, as I anticipated, now prints, as a conclusive reply (Ibid., ix. 603), words which look the other way, ignoring, as usual, the quotations on which I explicitly relied. He has thereby, as I said, only proved how confused, here as elsewhere, Mr Freeman's conception was.
[18] Mr Archer now prefers to leave its details doubtful (English Historical Review, ix. 606).
[19] As I have shown in Ibid., ix. 244-5.