See, besides, «Syr Ferumbras», ll. 422, 1297, 1305, 1354. This Bryer of Mountes must be the same as the one slain in a sally of the twelve peers, ll. 2604, 2622, because, according to l. 1723, it was he who was among the peers sent on a mission to the Soudan. There is one Bryer of Brytaine occurring in l. 886, whom one might be inclined to think identical with Bryer of Mountes, as in l. 886 he is cited together with the other peers. But since we find him again as the treasurer of Charlemagne (l. 3205), this is impossible, unless we suppose the mention of Bryer in l. 3205 to be owing to the [p123] absent-mindedness of the author, who may be accused of a similar inadvertency with regard to Rychard of Normandy; cf. note to l. 2797, and Index of Names, «s. v.» Flagot. p. 50, l. 1743. «Bronland.» The true reading is «Bro»u«land», as shewn by «Fierabras», ll. 1549, 5174, &c.; «Destruction», ll. 1240–159, 441, and «Sowdan», ll. 1759, 2456. The Ashmole MS. has «Bruyllant». p. 51, l. 1751. «thane» = “thane that.” See Zupitza’s note to «Guy», 992, p. 363. p. 51, l. 1778. «charke» hardly makes sense here. It is perhaps a clerical error for «charge», “to command, to order.” The sense would then be, “and to tell him the Soudan’s strict orders which by peril of death (= «upon life and lithe») Laban recommended him to obey.” p. 51, l. 1779. «þen» instead of «þan» would improve the rhyme. p. 52, l. 1788. «lorde of Spayne.» Cf. the French expression, “amirans d’Espaigne,” which we find so often used in the «Destruction». p. 52, l. 1802. «trappe» is Mod. Eng. «trape», which is used in the sense of “to traipse, to walk sluttishly.” Halliwell has “trapes = to wander about.” p. 52, l. 1816. «byleved.» Rhyme and sense will be improved by reading «byleven». p. 53, l. 1854. «tyme» makes no sense here. Perhaps we ought to read «I dyne»; cf. ll. 1508, 1114, 1837, and «Syr Ferumbras», l. 5621: “Oþer elles þoo shalt þyn hefd forgon, To morwen, or y wil dyne.” «Fierabras», l. 1914: “Ja mais ne mengerai si sera desmembrés.” See also «Guy», l. 3695. p. 54, l. 1888. «Syr Gy, nevew unto the king Charles.» Cf. «Fierabras», ll. 3406–8: “On m’apele Guion, de Borgoigne fui nés, Et fils d’une des filles au duc Millon d’Aingler, Cousin germain Rollant, qui tant fait à douter.” Duke Milon d’Anglers was brother-in-law to Charlemagne, whose sister Berte was Milon’s wife and mother to Roland. Cf. Philippe Mousket, l. 2706–8: “S’ot Charles une autre sereur, Bertain: cele prist à seigneur Milon d’Anglers, s’en ot Rollant.” If, therefore, in the passage quoted above from «Fierabras», Guy is said to be the grandson of Milon, he must have been the grand-nephew of Charlemagne, and nephew to Rollant. As we learn from the French poem of «Guy de Bourgoyne», Guy’s father was Samson of Burgundy. Cf. besides, «Histoire Poétique», p. 407, and «Syr Ferumbras», ll. 1922, 2091, 1410, etc.