Notes
1Piquantly on p. xlv (where “n. 4” means p. 415 n. 6: the mammoth grew too fast for its keeper, it would seem.
2Law, 217.
3Wilcox, 1994.
4As well as lengthening her name by two letters.
5Kitson, “On Margins of Error”.
6Kitson, “Geographical Variation”, 24; “On Margins of Error”, 224.
7Wilcox, 8.
8Stenton, 449, Hunter Blair, 176 – 7, and most forcefully Symons, xxvi agree on this.
9Kitson, “Topography”, 492.
10A late insertion by Ælfric found in some MSS of CH I 16.
11Their pale colour should also inhibit perception as “dried to dust”.
12And silkmoth species other than the main Chinese one have caterpillars in exotic colours such as green.
13Ps. 18.11, 118.103; Luke 24.5.
14Tapsell, 382.