Note 880 — Chapter V
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Having sworn an oath to stand by each other, they called themselves Eidgenossen=Oathfellows, Confederates. The old spellings, Eitgnozzen and Eidgnosschaft (Dierauer, i, 265, n.; Dändliker, Geschichte der Schweiz, i, 636—in the old Tell song), show how easily could arise the later French form "Huguenots."