I.32. en mauvais équipage , shabbily accoutred

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1. 14. s'avisa de lui courir sus , took it into his head to attack him.

1. 21. mark-graf \ the count of the border. From this title has corne marquis.

1. 24. les Basques , the wild population of Navarre and the W. Pyrenees, a non-Aryan race whose origin is doubtful. They were constantly at war with the Franks.

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1. 9. prendre à merci, to reduce to their mercy, their discrétion. merci , from the L. merx, merces .

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1. 5. un synode. Synods and councils of the Church were frequent in Gaul, and, as in England during the Heptarchy, contributed to keep up some unity in the country.