Chapter 39

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Matins – midnight Lauds – 3 am Prime – 6 am Terce – 9 am Sext – midday None – 3 pm Vespers – 6 pm Compline – 9 pm wyrd – Anglo-Saxon concept of ancestral fate, destiny leud – Frankish small nobleman, vassal to a Duke comitis, comitissa – Frankish count, countess faet – liquid measure probably translates as "pot" Sifunsterri – Anglo-Saxon name for the Pleiades gothi – Germanic pagan priest gythja – Germanic pagan priestess Fru Freke – Germanic goddess, otherwise Holda or Diana Folkwangr – fields where the souls of the dead gather in Germanic mythology Sessrymir – Freke"s hall sortilegium – divination by drawing lots maleficium – malevolent sorcery chorbishop – from the Greek Χωρεπίσκοπος and means rural bishop buachaillí – Irish Gaelic for "boys" terp – artificial dwel

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