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Mar. 23. 1850.] 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
331 
ERRORS CORRECTED. 
JI. —Sharon Turner’s Hist. of England (Lond. 
1814. 4to.), i. 332. 
“ The Emperor (Henry VI.) determined to extort 
an immoderate ransom; but, to secure it, had him 
(Richard Coeur de Lion) conveyed to a castle in the 
Tyrol, from which escape was hopeless.” 
Note “104. In Tiruali. Oxened. MS,” 
Ibid. p. 333. : — 
“He (Richard) was removed from the dungeon in 
the Tyrol to the emperor's residence at Haguenau.” 
Note “109. See Richard’s Letter to his Mother. 
Hoveden, 726.” 
The fortress, here represented to be in the 
Tyrol, is about 220 miles distant (“as the crow 
flies”) from the nearest point in that district, and 
is the Castle of Trifels, which still crowns the 
highest of three rocky eminences (Treyfels= 
Three Rocks), which rise from the mountain range 
of the Vosges, on the southern side of the town of 
Annweiler. In proceeding from Landau to Zwei- 
briicken (Deux-Ponts), the traveller may see it 
on his left. The keep is still in good preservation ; 
and it was on account of the natural strength of 
its position that the imperial crown-jewels were 
formerly preserved in it. 
Iam unable to refer at present to the MS. of 
Oxenedes (Cotton, Nero, D 2), which appears to 
give the erroneous reading of Tirualli for Triualli 
or Trivalli; but Mr. Turner might have avoided 
the mistake by comparing that MS. with the 
printed text of Hoveden, in which Richard is 
represented as dating his letter “de Castello de 
Triuellis, in quo detinebamur.” 
IT, —Wright’s S. Patrick's Purgatory (Lond. 
1844. 8vo.), p. 135.: — 
«On the patent rolls in the Tower of London, 
under the year 1358, we have an instance of testi- 
monials given by the king (Edward III.) on the same 
day, to two distinguished foreigners, one a noble Hun- 
garian, the other a Lombard, Nicholas de Beccariis, 
of their having faithfully performed this pilgrimage.” 
In a note on this passage, Mr. Wright reprints 
one of the testimonials from Rymer (Federa, 
vol. iii. pt. i. p.174.), in which is the following 
passage : — 
“ Nobilis vir Malatesta Ungarus de Arminio miles,” 
In the original deed, the text must have been 
de Arimino (of Rimini) ; for the person here re- 
ferred to was a natural son of Malatesta de’ Mala- 
testi, Lord of Rimini and of Pesaro, and took the 
name of Z’ Ungaro in consequence of his having 
been knighted by Louis, King of Hungary, when the 
latter passed through the Malatesta territory, when 
he was going to Naples for the purpose of avenging 
his brother Andrew’s death. In the Italian ac- 
count of the family (Clementini, Raccolto Istorico 
della Fondazione di Rimino. Rimino, 1617—27. 
2 vols. 4to.), L’Ungario is said to have been a 
great traveller, to have visited England, and to 
have died in 1372, at the age of 45. (See also 
Sansovino, Origine e Futti delle Famiglie Illustri 
d'Italia. Venetia, 1670. 4to. p.356.) -F.C.B. 
DIRECT AND INDIRECT ETYMOLOGY. 
Thave just been exceedingly interested in reading 
a lecture on the Origin and Progress of the En- 
glish Language, delivered at the Atheneum, Dur- 
ham, before the Teachers’ Society of the North of 
England, by W. Finley, Graduate of the University 
of France. 
The following passage well expresses a caution 
that should be always kept in mind by the literary 
archeologist : — 
«In the orthography of English words derived from 
the Latin, one greut and leading principle must be kept 
in view. If the word is of new adoption, it is certain 
that its spelling will be like that which appears in the 
original word; or if it has come to us through the 
French, the spelling will be conformable to the word 
in that language; thus, persecution from persequor, 
pursue from poursuivre. Again, flourish from fleurir, 
efllorescent, florid, &c, from floreo. And to establish 
our orthography on certain grounds, it ought to be the 
business of the lexicographer to determine the date of 
the first appearance of an adopted word, and thus satis- 
factorily determine its spelling.” (Lecture, p. 20. foot- 
note.) 
Diva S} 
Home, March 2. 
ERRORS IN POPE'S HOMER’S ODYSSEY. 
In all the editions I have seen of this translation, 
the following very palpable errors exist, which I 
do not remember to have seen noticed. The first 
of these errors is contained in book ix. lines 325, 
326. 463. and 533, — 
« Fools that ye are! (the savage thus replies, 
His inward fury blazing at bis eyes. )” 
« Sing’d are his brows: the scorching lids grow black.” 
« Seest thou these lids that now unfold in vain?” 
and consists in Mr. Pope having bestowed two 
organs of sight on the giant Polypheme. 
The second occurs in line 405 of the same book ; 
* Brain’d on the rock ; his second dire repast ;” 
and is owing to the inadvertency of the translator, 
who forgets what he had previously written in 
lines 342 to 348. 
«« He answer’d with his deed: his bloody hand 
Snatch’d two, unhappy! of my martial band ; 
And dash’d like dogs against the stony floor : 
The pavement swims with brains and mingled gore. 
Torn limb from limb, he spreads his horrid feast, 
And fierce devours it like a mountain beast.” 
And in lines 368 and 369; 
«“ The task thus finish’d of his morning hours, 
Two more he snatches, murders, and devours !” 
