Notes and Queries

Notes and Queries

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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 20, March 16, 1850
Author: Various
Release Date: August 1, 2005 [EBook #16409]
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NOTES AND QUERIES:
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"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
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CONTENTS.
NOTES:-- Page Alfred's Geography of Europe, by S.W. Singer 313 The First Coffee Houses in England, by E.F. Rimbault, LL.D. 314 True Tragedy of Richard III. 315 Folk-Lore--Merry Lwyd--Deathbed Superstition 315 Passage in L'Allegro--Milton's Minor Poems 315 Doctor Dobbs--Golden Age of Magazines 316 Use of Beaver Hats in England, by E.F. Rimbault, LL.D. 317 Extracts from Old Records, by R. Cole 317
QUERIES:-- Queries on Outline 318 Christ's Hospital--Old Songs once popular there 318 Watching the Sepulchre, &c. 318 Minor Queries:--Conrad of Salisbury--Peruse or Pervise--Cromlech--Meaning of Grummett--Vertue's MSS.--Loscop--Ormonde House--As Morse caught the Mare--Dustpot, Forthlot--Tracts attributed to Eachard--Queen of Hearts--Guildhalls--Vox Populi--Use of Coffins--Rococo--Howlet the Engraver--The Bear, &c. 319
REPLIES:-- Letter attributed to Sir R. Walpole 321 College Salting 321 Junius 322 White Hart Inn, Scole 323 Parkership, Porkership, Pokership 323 Replies to Minor Queries:--Coleridge's Christabel-- Sir William Rider--God tempers the Wind-- Complutensian Polyglot--Tickhill--Bishop Blaise-- Sangred--Judas Bell--La Mer des Histoires 324
MISCELLANIES:-- Tale of a Tub--A Genius--Dedications 326
MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 326 Notices to Correspondents 326 Advertisements 327
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KING ALFRED'S GEOGRAPHY OF EUROPE.
There is no other printed copy of the A.-S. Orosius than the very imperfect edition of Daines Barrington, which is perhaps the most striking example of incompetent editorship which could be adduced. The text was printed from a transcript of a transcript, without much pains bestowed on collation, as he tells us himself. How much it is to be lamented that the materials for a more complete edition are diminished by the disappearance of the _Lauderdale MS._, which, I believe, when Mr. Kemble wished to consult it, could not be found in the Library at Ham.
Perhaps no more important illustration of the Geography of the Middle Ages exists than Alfred's very interesting description of the Geography of Europe, and the _Voyages of Othere and Wulfstan_; and this portion of the Hormesta has received considerable attention from continental scholars, of which it appears Mr. Hampson is not aware. As long since as 1815 Erasmus Rask (to whom, after Jacob Grimm, Anglo-Saxon students are most deeply indebted) published in the Journal of the Scandinavian Literary Society (ii. 106. sq.) the Anglo-Saxon Text, with a Danish translation, introduction, and notes, in which many of the errors of Barrington and Forster are pointed out and corrected. This was reprinted by Rask's son in the Collection he gave of his father's Dissertation, in 2 vols. Copenhagen, 1834.
Mr. Thorpe, in the 2nd edit. of his Analecta, has given "Alfred's Geography," &c., no doubt accurately printed from the Cotton MS., and has rightly explained Apdrede and Wylte in his Glossary, but does not mention _?feldan_; and Dr. Leo, in his Sprachproben, has given a small portion from Rask, with a few geographical notes. Dr. Ingram says: "I hope on some future occasion to publish the whole of 'Alfred's Geography,' accompanied with accurate maps."
Rask has anticipated Mr. Hampson's correction respecting the Wilti, and thus translates the passage: "men norden for Oldsakserne er Obotriternes Land, og i Nordost Vilterne, som man kalder ?felder." The mistake of Barrington and Dr. Ingram is the more extraordinary when it is recollected that no people are so frequently mentioned in the chronicles of the Middle Ages as this Sclavonic tribe: citations might be given out of number, in which their contests with their neighbours the Obotriti, Abodriti, or Apdrede of Alfred are noticed. Why the Wilti were sometimes called _?feldi_ or Heveldi, will appear from their location, as pointed out by Ubbo Emmius: "Wilsos, Henetorum gentem, ad Havelam trans Albim sedes habentem." (Rer. Fris. Hist. l. iv. p. 67.) Schaffarik remarks, "Die Stoderaner und Havelaner waren ein und derselbe, nur durch zwei namen interscheiden zweige des Weleten stammes;" and Albinus says: "Es sein aber die riehten Wilzen Wender sonderlich an der Havel wonhaft." They were frequently designated by the name of Lutici, {314} as appears from Adam of Bremen, Helmond, and others, and the Sclavonic word liuti signified _wild, fierce_, &c. Being a wild and