...feature of his story, by putting the following conversation in the mouths of these Saxon menials : " How call you those grunting brutes running about on their four legs? " demanded Wamba, the jester. "Swine," said the herd. "And swine is good Saxon," said the jester; "but how call you it...

...words, on the other hand, suggest the experience of a people of higher culture and civilisation : "' Why, how call you those grunting brutes running about on their four legs 1' demanded Wamba. "' Swine, fool, swine,' said the herd,' every fool knows that.' " ' And swine is...

...morning, to thy no small ease and comfort." " The swine turned Normans to my comfort! " quoth Gurth; " expound that to me, Wamba, for my brain is too dull,...every fool knows that." " And swine is good Saxon," 8 said the Jester; " but how call you the sow when she is flayed, and drawn, and quartered, and hung...

...something more exalted. Latinized from a Saxon villein into a Norman courtier : "Why, how call you these grunting brutes running about on their four legs ?*'...swine," said the herd ; " every fool knows that." " And swtnc is good Saxon," said the jester ; " but how call you the sow when she is flayed, and drawn, and...

...het verschil tussen de Saksische woorden swine en ox en hun Normandische tegenhangers, pork en beef: "Why, how call you those grunting brutes running about on their four legs?" demanded Wamba. "Swine, fooi - swine," said the herd; "every fooi knows that." "And swine is good Saxon," said thejester; "but...

...morning, to thy no small ease and comfort.' * The swine turned Normans to my comfort ! ' quoth Gurth ; * expound that to me, Wamba, for my brain is too dull,...that.' 'And swine is good Saxon,' said the Jester; * See Note A. The Ranger of the Forest, that cuts the fore-claws off our dogs. * but how call you the...

...before morning, to thy no small ease and comfort," quoth Wamba. "The swine turned Normans to my comfort! Expound that to me, Wamba, for my brain is too dull,...legs?" demanded Wamba. "Swine, fool, swine," said the lad; "every fool knows that." "And swine is good Saxon," said the Jester; "but how call you the sow...

...morning, to thy no small ease and comfort.' ' The swine turned Normans to my comfort ! ' quoth Gurth ; ' expound that to me, Wamba, for my brain is too dull...those grunting brutes running about on their four legs 1 ' demanded Wamba. ' Swine, fool — swine,' said the herd ; ' every fool knows that.' ' And swine...

...morning, to thy no small ease and comfort." "The swine turned Normans to my comfort !" quoth Gurth; "expound that to me, Wamba, for my brain is too dull and my mind too vexed to read riddles." 50 "Why, how call you those grunting brutes running about on their four legs ?" demanded Wamba. "Swine,...

...following is from the conversation between the swineherd Gurth and the jester Wamba in Scott's Ivanhoe: "Why, how call you those grunting brutes running about on their four legs?" demanded Wamba. 1 More usually spelt 'rhyme'; but as rhyme is so often confused with 'rhythm,' and as 'rime' is also...