Note 9 — Chapter X · Difficulties of the Folklorist

As to Rion, see Gaston Paris and Ulrich’s Merlin (Paris, 1886), i. 202, 239–46. Other instances will readily occur to the reader, such as the Domesday Roelend or Roelent for Rothelan, in Modern Welsh Rhuđlan; but for more instances of this elision by French and Anglo-Norman scribes of vowel-flanked đ and th, see Notes and Queries for Oct. 28, 1899, pp. 351–2, and Nov. 18, p. 415; also Vising’s Étude sur le Dialecte anglo-normand du xije Siècle (Upsala, 1882), p. 88; and F. Hildebrand’s article on Domesday, in the Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, 1884, p. 360. According to Suchier in Gröber’s Grundriss der rom. Philologie, i. 581, this process of elision became complete in the twelfth century: see also Schwan’s Grammatik des Altfranzösischen (Leipsic, 1888), p. 65. For most of these references, I have to thank my friend and neighbour, Mr. Stevenson of Exeter College. ↑