Glossary
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- All Saints
- alms
- Money or goods collected for the poor; charity.
- calends
- (sometimes kalends) The first day of the month in the Roman calendar; originally the day of the new moon.
- candlemas
- cock-crowing
- dawn
- Etheling (eðeling)
- (sometimes atheling) Generally used to designate anyone of noble birth; often used in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle to denote royalty from Wessex.
- ides
- lidwiccian
- murrain
- nones
- The ninth day before Ides in the Roman calendar; the 7th of March, May, July and October and the 5th of other months.
- pall
- pounds
- right belief
- welkin
