Note {2} — Chapter X

Note 2.—Tarcasci (G. T.). This word is worthy of note as the proper form of what has become in modern French carquois. The former is a transcript of the Persian Tărkăsh; the latter appears to be merely a corruption of it, arising perhaps clerically from the constant confusion of c and t in MSS. (See Defrémery, quoted by Pauthier, in loco.) [Old French tarquais (13th century), Hatzfeldt and Darmesteter’s Dict. gives; “Coivres orent ceinz et tarchais.” (Wace, Rou, III., 7698; 12th century).]