Endnotes + 

Demented. ↩ + 

No matter. —⁠M. T. ↩ + 

The story is borrowed, language and all, from the Morte d’Arthur. —⁠M. T. ↩ + 

All the details concerning the hermits, in this chapter, are from Lecky⁠—but greatly modified. This book not being a history but only a tale, the majority of the historian’s frank details were too strong for reproduction in it. —⁠Editor ↩ + 