Note 4 — PART II HISTORICAL STUDIES

I have elsewhere4 discussed 'the disputed passage' (supra, p. 267), and agreed with Mr Archer that there are 'four views which have been suggested' as to its meaning.5 Two of them, I there showed, were successively held by Mr Freeman, and the two others successively advanced by Mr Archer. When I add (anticipating) that, according to M. Paris, 'le passage de Wace présente quelque obscurité',6 and that M. Meyer introduced yet another element of doubt in a special kind of shield ('de grands écus') not previously suggested, it will be obvious, quite apart from any opinion of my own, that the passage presents difficulties.