Allied still to our own name. This palm, you see,
Labour hath glow’d within; her silver brow,
That never tasted a rough winter’s blast
Without a mask or fan, doth with a grace
Defy cold winter and his storms outface!”
[146]. In MS. glossaries we find gelondan rendered by fratrueles. In advanced periods only can there be a distinction between the family, and the local, distributions: Suidas, citing Xanthus, says the Lydians made a solemn supplication to the gods, παγγενεί τε καὶ πανδημεί. See Niebuhr on the Patrician Houses, i. 267.
[147]. Mor. Germ. c. 16.
[148]. The traces of this mode of distribution are numerous. Hengest forcibly occupying the Frisian territory, is said to do so, elne, unhyltme, violently and without casting of lots. Beów. l. 2187, 2251. The Law of the Burgundians calls hereditary land, “terra sortis titulo acquisita,” in contradistinction to chattels taken by purchase. Lex Burg. Tit. 1. cap. 1, 2. Eichhorn, i. 360, 400, note a. Godred, having subdued the Manxmen, divided their land among his followers by lot. “Godredus sequenti die obtionem exercitui suo dedit, ut si mallent Manniam inter se dividere, et in ea habitare; vel cunctam substantiam terrae accipere, et ad propria remeare.” Chron. Manniae. (Cott. MS. Jul. A. VII. fol. 32.) Upon the removal of St. Cuðberht’s relics to Durham, the first care was to eradicate the forest that covered the land; the next, to distribute the clearing by lot: “eradicata itaque silva, et unicuique mansionibus sorte distributis,” etc. Simeon. Hist. Dunelm. Eccl. § 37.
[149]. Words denoting measures of land have very frequently reference to the plough: thus geóc, furlang, sulung, aratrum, carucata, etc.
[150]. προστάτον γεγράφθαι, to be enrolled under some one’s patronage: to be in his mund and borh. ὥστ’ οὐ Κρέοντος προστάτον γεγράψομαι. Œd. Tyr. 411.