Ivanhoe

CHAPTER XIV

1 (p. 153) epigraph: The lines are from Thomas Warton’s ”Ode for the New Year, 1787” (lines 1-6).

2 (p. 159) a Saxon would have been held nidering: [Author’s note] Nidering. There was nothing accounted so ignominious among the Saxons as to merit this disgraceful epithet. Even William the Conqueror, hated as he was by them, continued to draw a considerable army of Anglo-Saxons to his standard by threatening to stigmatise those who staid at home as nidering. Bartholinus, I think, mentions a similar phrase which had like influence on the Danes.—L. T.