Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn

by R. W. Chambers

[173] Hone's Every Day Book, 1827, p. 1170.

[174] The Tamar and the Tavy, I. 330 (1836).

[175] Raymond, Two men o' Mendip, 1899, 259.

[176] Miss M. A. Courtney, Glossary of West Cornwall; T. Q. Couch, Glossary of East Cornwall, s. v. Neck (Eng. Dial. Soc. 1880); Jago, Ancient Language of Cornwall, 1882, s. v. Anek.

[177] Notes and Queries, 4th Ser. XII, 491 (1873).

[178] Holland's Glossary of Chester (Eng. Dial. Soc.), s.v. Cutting the Neck.

[179] Burne, Shropshire Folk Lore, 1883, 371.

[180] "to cry the Mare." Blount, Glossographia, 4th edit. 1674, s.v. mare. Cf. Notes and Queries, 5th Ser. VI, 286 (1876).

[181] Wright, Eng. Dial. Dict., s.v. neck.

[182] Frazer, Spirits of the Corn, 1912, I, 268. The word was understood as = "neck" by the peasants, because "They'm taied up under the chin laike" (Notes and Queries, 5th Ser. X, 51). But this may be false etymology.