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Excerpt from The Lay of Havelok the Dane: Composed in the Reign of Edward I, About A. D. 1280; Formerly Edited by Sir F. Madden for the Roxburghe Club, and Now Re-Edited From the Unique Ms. Laud Misc; 108, in the Dodleian Library, Oxford
In particular, we find there a complete proof, supported by some fifty ex amples, that, as can be traced, through the forms ase, als, alse, also, to the a.s. Eall-srva a proof, that in the difficult phrase land and lithe, the word lithe [also spelt lede, leak] is equivalent to the French tenement, rente, or fe and, thirdly, a. Complete refutation of Mr Singer's extraordinary notion that the adverb swithe means a sword! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
