Glossary + 

Accoll + 

Embrace. + 

Adree + 

Apart. + 

Athel + 

Of noble birth. + 

Splendid. + 

Beam + 

Child, man. + 

Boun + 

Adj., ready, setting out. + 

Verb, make ready, start. + 

Brawden + 

Made of links. + 

Burd + 

Maid (as in “burd Helen”). + 

Capados + 

Short tunic (from Cappadocia). + 

Carol + 

A ring-dance. + 

Disport + 

Entertainment. + 

Dree + 

Verb, to endure. + 

Adj., persistent, steadfast. + 

Druery + 

Love or love-token. + 

Ettle + 

Intend, aim. + 

Fey + 

Doomed. + 

Foreward + 

Covenant. + 

Fraunchise + 

Noble disposition. + 

Free + 

Knight or lady. + 

Gersom + 

Treasure. + 

Gisarm + 

Battle-axe. + 

Glede + 

Live coal. + 

Grame + 

Mortification. + 

Graith + 

Ready. + 

Graithe + 

Make ready, array. + 

Graithly + 

Readily, properly. + 

Halch + 

Embrace, entwine. + 

Handsel + 

Lucky omen, New Year’s gift. + 

Hap + 

Cover, wrap up. + 

Haulm + 

Handle. + 

Kind + 

Natural character (out of kind = degenerate). + 

Laik + 

Play. + 

Launce + 

Utter: intr., gallop. + 

Laund + 

Clearing in forest. + 

Learn + 

Gleam. + 

Leer + 

Face. + 

Lout + 

Bow. + 

Meiny + 

Household, retainers. + 

Moot + 

Noun, note on horn. + 

Verb, speak, discuss. + 

Nick + 

Say “No” (lit. not I). + 

O’erwalted + 

Upset (dial, waut). + 

Price + 

Excellence of price, noble. + 

Prick + 

Go fast (prick and prance). + 

Prize + 

Blast announcing capture. + 

Quarry + 

The kill, set out after the hunt is over. + 

Raught + 

Offered (p.t. of reach) + 

Roan + 

Brake, thicket. + 

Rouncy + 

Riding horse. + 

Sain + 

Cross, bless. + 

Sendal + 

Fine silk. + 

Sickar + 

Trusty. + 

Slot + 

Dip of the breast. + 

Spirr + 

To question. + 

Stale + 

Handle. + 

Stoor + 

Stern, severe. + 

Stour + 

Commotion. + 

Tent + 

P.p., stretched. + 

To pay attention to. + 

Thro + 

Fierce. + 

Tressure + 

Wire network on which headdress was built up. + 

Unlace + 

Cut up. + 

Villainy + 

Discourtesy, lack of courtly manners. + 

Ware + 

Spend, esp. with economy. + 

Weird + 

Fate. + 

Wight + 

Doughty (so “Wallace wight” in Scott). + 

Wone + 

Dwell. + 

Yern + 

Pass by (same word as “run”). + 