GLOSSARY
ABBREVIATIONS:—n., noun; v., verb; cf., compare; e.g., for example; p.t., past tense; p.p. past participle.
Abasement, casting down, defeat.
Acre-biders, peaceful workers in the fields as distinguished from warriors who left their homes to go to war.
Amber, a yellow substance found on the shores of the Baltic Sea and used from very early days as an ornament. The "southern men," or traders from the shores of the Mediterranean, came north to buy it.
Ark, a box for treasures.
Atwain, in two pieces, e.g. "The sword ... had smitten his body atwain."
Avail, n. power; v. to have power, to succeed.