Note 560 — Chapter VIII · THE MAY-GAME
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Pertz, Leges, i. 68 ‘nullatenus ibi uuinileodos scribere vel mittere praesumat.’ Kögel, i. 1. 61: Goedeke, i. 11, quote other uses of the term from eighth-century glosses, e.g. ‘uuiniliod, cantilenas saeculares, psalmos vulgares, seculares, plebeios psalmos, cantica rustica et inepta.’ Winiliod is literally ‘love-song,’ from root wini (conn. with Venus). Kögel traces an earlier term O. H. G. winileih, A.-S. winelâc = hîleih. On the erotic motive in savage dances, cf. Grosse, 165, 172; Hirn, 229.