Canto III. Endnotes.

  1. Tanais, the Don.

  2. Whence Adam (“red man”).

  3. Ruthenians = Eastern Galicians.

  4. Amisius or Amisia (Ems).

  5. Borussians = Prussians.

  6. Harz and Erzgebirge.

  7. Hod. Vardari or Bradi.

  8. Padua.

  9. Seine and Garonne.

  10. Viriatus = vir, vires, virtus (paronomasia).

  11. De Bouillon, crowned first king of Jerusalem, A.D. 1099.

  12. The favourite figure correctio.

  13. Valdevez, or Campo da Matança, A.D. 1128 (Canto IV. 16).

  14. i.e., of festal garb (Canto VIII. 14).

  15. Battle of Ourique, A.D. 1139.

  16. Isma’il = Ishmael.

  17. i.e., disclose Thyself, show a sign.

  18. The conqueror’s custom.

  19. St. Irene, Sanctarem, Santarem.

  20. Second Crusade, A.D. 1147.

  21. Giraldo Sem-Pavor, who took Evora.

  22. Burnt by the Moors.

  23. Syrians.

  24. The Ararat of fiction.

  25. Cape St. Vincent.

  26. The Guadalquivir.

  27. African Ceuta, opposite Gibraltar.

  28. The Emperor of Marocco.

  29. Coimbra.

  30. The Guadiana river.

  31. The Battle of the “Horns of Hattin.”

  32. Sic in orig.

  33. By D. Roderick the Goth.

  34. Begins vehemently—ex abrupto.

  35. The Lixus river, now Al-kús of Marocco.

  36. Battle of Tarifa or Rio Salado, A.D. 1340.

  37. Fourth of Portugal and eleventh of Castile.

  38. i.e., Portuguese Afonso.

  39. “Peace with honour.”

  40. Writing his name upon the tree-trunks and leaves.

  41. In orig., Ministros, i.e. of wrath (?)

  42. The famous Fonte-dos-Amores, near Coimbra.

  43. E bem parece,—ambiguous.