[146] The Runic excepted. The Runic letters were sixteen in number, and introduced very early into the North; but they went into disuse about the tenth or eleventh century.
[147] BENJAMIN is son of the right hand.
[148] Their.
[149] Mixture; an old French word, now written melange.
[150] corrupted.
[151] These words represent barbarity and roughness in speaking.
[152] Corruption of the native tongue.
[153] hear
[154] since
[155] know. The Germans preserve the verb kœnnen, to be able. The pronouns hir and hire for their, still remain in the German ihr.