Note 130 — APPENDIX.
William Robson translation
Our readers will judge, by two or three humorous traits in this description, that our monk of Malmesbury had no objection to a joke. The national characteristics here mentioned are curious, as proving how long our northern friends have been jeered at for their scratching propensities, and that the love of drinking was peculiar to the Dane before it was reprobated by Hamlet:—