Note 337 — Chapter IX · The State. (continued 2)
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Leg. Ini, 23. The Wealh-gerefa occurs in the Saxon Chronicle, and had no reference to Wales. The meaning of Seneschal and Mareschal has been generally sought in the Teutonic dialects; but perhaps they are to be numbered amongst those composite words so often met with. March is certainly more Celtic than Teutonic; and Sen is very like the Celtic word for Senior. Steel-bow, that mysterious appellation for ferreum perus, is another instance in which the first part is Teutonic, the last the Celtic Bo, or cattle.