Loth

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: Loth to have meant the same sort of non-human being whom an eleventh-century Life of St (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "Loth to have meant the same sort of non-human being whom an eleventh-century Life of St."

Layamon's Brut

• attestation: Knights and freemen, and freely hold them, and lead them in a host, as the laws are in the land. And he ordered his dear knights to be obedient to Loth, with loving looks, as if he were sovereign. (Layamon's Brut)

  "knights and freemen, and freely hold them, and lead them in a host, as the laws are in the land."

• attestation: He ordered his dear knights to be obedient to Loth, with loving looks, as if he were sovereign. For Loth was very good knight, and had held many fight, and he was liberal to every man, he delivered to him the government of all this land. (Layamon's Brut)

  "And he ordered his dear knights to be obedient to Loth, with loving looks, as if he were sovereign."

• attestation: Loth gave or bestowed something (Layamon's Brut)

  "For Loth was very good knight, and had held many fight, and he was liberal to every man, he delivered to him the government of all this land."

• attestation: Looked very contemptuously on Loth the earl, and did very evilly all his commands, and were all two counsels--their care was the more! This was soon said to the sick king, that his high men Loth all despised. (Layamon's Brut)

  "and looked very contemptuously on Loth the earl, and did very evilly all his commands, and were all two counsels--their care was the more!"

• attestation: This was soon said to the sick king, that his high men Loth all despised. (Layamon's Brut)

  "This was soon said to the sick king, that his high men Loth all despised."

• attestation: There came three brethren, that were royally born, Loth, and Angel, and Urien;—-well are such three men! These three chieftains came to the king, and set on their knees before the caiser:--"Hail be thou, Arthur, noblest of kings, and thy people with thee. (Layamon's Brut)

  "There came three brethren, that were royally born, Loth, and Angel, and Urien;—-well are such three men!"

• attestation: For new tidings are come from Norway, that Sichelm the king is there dead, his people has left, and he hath ere bequeathed all his kingdom to Loth. For the king is of all bereaved, son and eke daughter, and Loth is his sister's son—-the better to him shall it befall—-for I will make him new king in Norway, and well instruct him to govern well the people. (Layamon's Brut)

  "For new tidings are come from Norway, that Sichelm the king is there dead, his people has left, and he hath ere bequeathed all his kingdom to Loth."

• relationship: For the king is of all bereaved, son and eke daughter, and Loth is his sister's son—-the better to him shall it befall—-for I will make him new king in Norway, and well instruct him to govern well the people. And when I have done thus, I will afterwards come home, and get ready my army, and pass into France, and if the king withstandeth me, and will not yearn my peace, I will fell him with fight to the ground". (Layamon's Brut)

  "For the king is of all bereaved, son and eke daughter, and Loth is his sister's son—-the better to him shall it befall—-for I will make him new king in Norway, and well instruct him to govern well the people."

• attestation: They took their messengers, the Norwegian earls, and sent to the king, and bade him back go—-"And if thou wilt not depart, thou shalt have here sorrow and care; for so long as is ever, that shall never come to pass, that we shall raise a foreign man for king. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Then they took their messengers, the Norwegian earls, and sent to the king, and bade him back go—-"And if thou wilt not depart, thou shalt have here sorrow and care;"