Note 106 — 305

I mean Soldan Turk, c 223, for Soudron, a, b, d, and Soldanie, c 332, for Soudronie, Southronie, a, b. (Soudan Turk, also B 263, Souden Turk, C 33, 53.) Nothing is easier than the corruption of Soudron into Soudan, upon which change the addition of Turk would be all but inevitable. The corruption would be likely to be made by one who had heard of an irruption of Saracens (or, if you please, Moors) into Galloway. (See note, p. 190.) The winning of Ettrick Forest by and from the Southron is historical, and this pretends to be an historical poem.