125. In whom the services of all my knights should be combined.
128. giddy. Light, frivolous.
139. a streamer of the northern morn. A trail of light from the Aurora Borealis (literally “The Northern Dawn”).
140. the moving isles of winter. Icebergs.
170. As in a picture. With no change in the expression.
171. Remorsefully. With pity.
177. nightmare. A dream accompanied by a sensation of stifling. Mare is derived from a verb meaning to crush, to bruise.
182. Clothed with his breath. Enveloped in the vapour from his breath which condensed and congealed.
185. His own thought. His remorse for having deceived the king.
186. Dry clashed his harness. The echo of the sound of his armour was harsh.