la longue chevelure . See p

1. 26. Tournai (Tornacus) was the first capital of the Salian Franks.

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1. 27. à sa bouche. Mund is the word used for the King’s protection and lordship by Franks and Saxons alike. It is however doubtful whether it be the same word as the German mund, mouth.

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1. 3. ces vassaux ou leudes ; companions of the king, who presented them with either a javelin or a charger, as a token of their relation towards him as his friends and followers. The word antrustio implies a doser relationship still.

les plus dévoués , the antrustions.

1. 10. feod is connected with Engl. fee. This feod was one of the éléments of later feudalism.

1. 27. Ingonde . Ingunthis, afterwards married to Hermenegild, son of Leovigild the Visigothic King of Spain.