 | René Ernst Victor Stuip, C. Vellekoop - 1996 - 196 pages
...het verschil tussen de Saksische woorden swine en ox en hun Normandische tegenhangers, pork en beef: "Why, how call you those grunting brutes running about on their four legs?" demanded Wamba. "Swine, fooi - swine," said the herd; "every fooi knows that." "And swine is good Saxon," said thejester; "but... | |
 | Walter Scott - 2001 - 396 pages
...comfort.' * The swine turned Normans to my comfort ! ' quoth Gurth ; * expound that to me, Wamba, for my brain is too dull, and my mind too vexed, to read...that.' 'And swine is good Saxon,' said the Jester; * See Note A. The Ranger of the Forest, that cuts the fore-claws off our dogs. * but how call you the... | |
 | Anatoly Liberman - 2005 - 334 pages
...and comfort," quoth Wamba. "The swine turned Normans to my comfort! Expound that to me, Wamba, for my brain is too dull, and my mind too vexed, to read...legs?" demanded Wamba. "Swine, fool, swine," said the lad; "every fool knows that." "And swine is good Saxon," said the Jester; "but how call you the sow... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1893 - 532 pages
...comfort.' ' The swine turned Normans to my comfort ! ' quoth Gurth ; ' expound that to me, Wamba, for my brain is too dull and my mind too vexed to read riddles.'...those grunting brutes running about on their four legs 1 ' demanded Wamba. ' Swine, fool — swine,' said the herd ; ' every fool knows that.' ' And swine... | |
 | John Harvey Francis - 1929 - 264 pages
...following is from the conversation between the swineherd Gurth and the jester Wamba in Scott's Ivanhoe: "Why, how call you those grunting brutes running about on their four legs?" demanded Wamba. 1 More usually spelt 'rhyme'; but as rhyme is so often confused with 'rhythm,' and as 'rime' is also... | |
 | Louis Le Baut - 1959 - 358 pages
...comfort." "The swine turned Normans to my comfort !" quoth Gurth; "expound that to me, Wamba, for my brain is too dull and my mind too vexed to read riddles." 50 "Why, how call you those grunting brutes running about on their four legs ?" demanded Wamba. "Swine,... | |
 | 1866 - 1024 pages
...was, to be "converted into Normans." Gurth asks his meaning, and Wamba replies with the question, " How call you those grunting brutes running about on their four legs ? " — " Swine, fool, swine; every fool knows that," replies Gurth. — "And swine is good Saxon,"... | |
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Why, how call you those grunting brutes running about on their four legs? " demanded Wamba. " Swine, fool, swine," said the herd; 
