Demeter and other poems/Notes to Owd Roä

by Alfred Tennyson

NOTES TO OWD ROÄ.

1Old Rover.

2Manner.

3Hold.

4Found

5‘Ou’ as in ‘house.’

6‘Owd-farran’d,’ old-fashioned.

7Built.

8‘Twizzen’d,’ twisted.

9On a staff ragulé.

10Ivy.

11Mangolds and turnips.

12Meadows

13Drifted snow.

14‘Moästlins,’ for the most part, generally.

15Once.

16Peel.

17Arm.

18Mad.

19Latch.

20The girl was as dirty a slut as ever trudged in the mud, but there is a sense of slatternliness in ‘traäpes’d’ which is not expressed in trudged!

21She half overturned me and shrieked like an owl gone mad.

22Ladder.

23A thoroughly insignificant or worthless person.

24Mark.

25Clutched.

26‘Bubbling,’ a young unfledged bird.

27Beams.

28Wrapt ourselves.

29The beam that runs along the roof of the house just beneath the ridge.