Note 1022 — Chapter V · THE YOUNG KING 1223–1227
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R. Coggeshall, l.c. Unluckily this tale, which sounds so characteristic of its hero, rests on unknown authority, being an interpolation in Ralf’s text, and we have no means of judging whether it is derived from contemporary report, or is merely the invention of some imaginative etymologist. The French form of the name is Falkes, Faukes, or Fauques, variously Latinized as Falkesius or Falcasius, sometimes as Falco. It seems to have been a variant of Fulk, Fouques, Fulco, and more probably connected with falco than with falx.