Note 12 — Chapter XV · THE MYSTERIOUS CHAMBER.
Daniel De Leon translation
"Antique geneologies, diligently kept by the bards, seemed to designate those who could pretend to the dignity of chiefs of a canton or family; for these words were synonymous in the tongue of the Gallic Breton, and the lines of descent were the basis of their social status."—Augustin Thierry, Social State of the Bretons, History of the Conquest of Britany, pp. 10, 11.