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hagehenne we have gattergeld and gatterhenne, fees 

 paid to the lord or gatterherr for the dwelling or land 

 inclosed by a gatter, this being a fence, modern German 

 gitter. Other forms are L.G. gadder, H.G. gdtter and 

 getter. The meaning of gatter is quite clear, a staked 

 fence, interwoven like a hurdle. The forms gataro and 

 kataro occur in O.H.G., and seem to point to the same 

 origin as gatte and Jcatilinga. I take it that the gatter 

 is equivalent to the hag and the gemachzaun, the fence 

 of the old group gadem. Whether its origin is to be 

 sought in the bringing or binding together, conveyed in 

 the word gather or not (the dictionaries are rather at 

 a loss on the point), the gatter seems to be related to 

 the gatilinga in precisely the same manner as the hag 

 to the hagetissa and hagastalt. 1 This link, however, is 

 by no means necessary in order to bring out the very 

 complete similarity of ideas in the hihun, gamahhida, 

 and Jcatilinga terminology of the old mother-age con- 

 ceptions of kin and of kindred marriage. 



(8) It may be well to turn aside here from our 

 Teutonic words for kin, and note how generally the notion 

 of a folk-gathering is a union for food, council, song, and 

 sex. Consider the Latin grex, a herd, also a troupe, 

 society, band in short, the hive ; congregatio is a 

 flocking together, but congressio and congressus, while 

 denoting friendly intercourse, yet both take the sexual 

 meaning. 2 Taking the equivalent Greek ayelpco, with the 

 same notion of gather or assemble, we have ayopd for the 

 assembly or tribe-talk, bringing out the judicial aspect of 



1 The getting is identified with hagestolz in a Hachberg Weisthum of 1341, 

 Grimm i. p. 366. 



2 Compare also O.H.G. zeman, A.S. tymen = convenire, but also tofteam. 



