附录

附录

术语汇编

这份术语汇编收集了在我看来不易理解的词(包括词形、含义与现代用法不同的词)。这份列表的内容源于外来的规范,显然不可能是系统性的。

an if

bent open place covered with grass

bid offered

chase hunting ground

clomb old past tense ofclimb

corse corpse

croft small plot of land

drouth dryness

entreat treat

envermined full of noxious creatures.这个词似乎没有其他记录。

fell hide

flittermouse bat

forhungered starved

frith wood,woodland

frore very cold

glamoury magic,enchantment

haggard (of hills)wild

haply perhaps

hem and hedge enclose and fence off

howe burial mound,barrow

inane empty

lave wash

leeches physicians

let hinder:their going let‘hinder their passing’

like please(indoth it like thee?)藏书网

limber supple

march borderland

neb beak,bill

nesh soft,tender

opes opens

parlous dangerous

pled old past tense ofplead

quook old past tense ofquake

rede counsel

rove past tense ofrive‘rend,tear apart,cleave’

ruel-bone ivory

runagate deserter,renegade

scullion kitchen drudge

shores supports

sigaldry sorcery

slot track of an animal

spoor the same asslot

sprite spirit

sylphine of the nature of a sylph(a spirit inhabiting the air).这个形容词没有记录。

swath (space left after passage of a mower)track,trace

tarn a small mountain lake

thews bodily strength

thrall a slave,one who is in bondage(thraldom)

trammelled hampered,impeded

unkempt uncombed

viol a stringed instrument playedwith a bow

weft woven fabric

weird fate

weregild (Old English)the price set upon a man in accordance with his rank

whin gorse

wolfhame wolfskin

woof woven fabric

would wished