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Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX)

• attestation: English: (English earls were created by the girding with a sword. (The Danish History, > Books I-Ix > Political Institutions.)

  "(English earls were created by the girding with a sword."

• attestation: (This was paid in the old English monarchies by kneeling and laying the head down at the lord's knee.)

The trick by which the Mock-king, or King of the Beggars (parallel to our Boy-bishop, and per... (The Danish History, > Books I-Ix > Political Institutions.)

"(This was paid in the old English monarchies by kneeling and laying the head down at the lord's knee.)

The trick by which the Mock-king, or King of the Beggars (parallel to our Boy-bishop, and perhaps to that enigmatic churls' King of the "O."

• attestation: But it helps to complete the picture of the older stage of North Teutonic Law. (The Danish History, > Books I-Ix > Customary Law.)

  "But it helps to complete the picture of the older stage of North Teutonic Law, which we are able to piece together out of our various sources, English, Icelandic, and Scandinavian."

• attestation: Captive women are reduced to degrading slavery as "harlots" in one case. (The Danish History, > Books I-Ix > Customary Law.)

  "Captive women are reduced to degrading slavery as "harlots" in one case, according to the eleventh century English practice of Gytha."

• attestation: (This is the traditional interpretation of the conqueror's haughty dealing. (The Danish History, > Books I-Ix > Statute Laws.)

  "(This is the traditional interpretation of the conqueror's haughty dealing; we may compare it with the Middle-English legends of the pride of the Dane towards the conquered English."

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• relationship: An English lady living in the neighbourhood of Castletown told me that her son, whom I know to be, like his mother, a blond, not being aware what consequences might be associated with his visit, calle (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter V: The Fenodyree and his Friends)

  "An English lady living in the neighbourhood of Castletown told me that her son, whom I know to be, like his mother, a blond, not being aware what consequences might be associated with his visit, called at a house in Castletown on the morning of New Year's Day, and he chanced to be the qualtagh."