"Dous Engleiz vit mult orguillos, Ki s'esteient acumpaignié Por ço ke bien erent preisié. Ensemble debveient aler: Li uns debveit l'altre garder: En lor cols aveient levées Dui gisarmes lunges è lées."
[88] Wilson's "Memorials of Edinburgh," vol. ii. p. 3; from the Borough Records.
[89] We are indebted to Mr. Westwood for this curious drawing.
[91] Figured in _Collect. Antiq._, ii. 245, and at p. 101 of the Illustrated Catalogue of Mr. Roach Smith's Museum.
[93] _Normandie Souterraine_, pp. 285, 351, 385.
[94] See Archæol. Journal, vol. vi. p. 181; and Wilson's "Archæology of Scotland," p. 393.
[100] See Wilkinson's Egyptians, vol. i. p. 357, ed. 1854.
[101] See Layard's Nineveh, p. 332, ed. 1852.
[105] See the able work of M. Reinaud and Captain Favé, _Du Feu Grégeois, &c._; and M. Lacabane's paper in the _Biblio. de l'Ecole des Chartes_, Second Series, vol. i.; and the _Etudes sur l'Artillerie_, by the Emperor of the French.
[106] "Und so schwollen Sigurds Seiten, dass seine Panzerringe entzweisprangen;" welches Entzweispringen doch von nebeneinander gehefteten Ringen nicht füglich gesagt werden könnte.--_Wien's kaiserliches Zeughaus._
[111] See Strutt, "Dress and Hab.," Pl. XXIX.
[112] It is engraved in vol. ii. of _Collectanea Antiqua_.
[113] Wilkinson's "Ancient Egyptians," p. 287, ed. 1837; vol. i. p. 338, ed. 1854.
[114] See Archæol. Journ., vol. iii. p. 352.
[115] _Trachten des christlichen Mittelalters._ There is also a French version of this admirable work.
[128] Archæologia, vol. xix.; and Memoirs, p. 298.
[129] Compare Wilkinson's "Egyptians," i. 349, ed. 1854; Layard's "Monuments of Nineveh," Plate LXXII.; and the wall-painting of the Ajunta Caves, of the first century of our era, a fine copy of which has been placed in the Museum of the East India House. The Chinese still use a large round shield of cane-wicker, behind which they crouch so as to conceal themselves entirely from the view of the enemy.
[130] See Description of Engravings, for the particular localities where they were discovered.
[135] Hefner; _Trachten des christlichen Mittelalters_, Pt. I.
[136] Described in _Archæologia_, vol. xxxv.
[137] For much curious information relating to the practice of interring with the hero his horse, chariot, hawks, hounds, &c., and the discovery of their remains in the graves, see _Archæologia_, vol. xxxiii.; the York volume of the Archæolog. Instit., p. 28; Saxon Obsequies, pl. XXXVIII.; Archæol. Journal, vol. vii. p. 43; Kemble's Saxons in England, vol. i. p. 428; Appendix to Kemble's trans. of "Beowulf;" Wilson's Archæol. of Scotland, pp. 457 and 552; Worsaae's Antiq. of Denmark, p. 100; Bähr's _Die Gräber der Liven_, pl. XVI. Compare also Tacitus, _Germania_, x.; Cæsar, _Bell. Gall._, lib. vi.; and Wilkinson's Anc. Egypt., vol. ii. pp. 270 and 399, ed. 1854.