Note 17 — Chapter IV · OUT OF DOOR AMUSEMENTS OF THE ANGLO-SAXONS.—HUNTING AND HAWKING.—HORSES AND CARRIAGES.—TRAVELLING.—MONEY-DEALINGS.
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The word occurs in the reflections of our first parents on their nakedness, in the poem attributed to Cædmon. Adam says that when the inclement weather arrives (cymeð hægles scúr—the hail shower will come) they had nothing before them to serve for a defence or shade against the storm—
“Nys unc wuht beforan to scur sceade.”