NOTES.
Note 1, page 202, line 10.
No helmet hangs o'er the massy gate.
It was a custom in feudal times to hang out a helmet on a castle, as a token that strangers were invited to enter, and partake of hospitality. So in the romance of 'Perceforest,' "ils fasoient mettre au plus hault de leur hostel un heaulme, en signe que tous les gentils hommes et gentilles femmes entrassent hardiment en leur hostel comme en leur propre."
Note 2, page 202, lines 21 and 22.
Or the wild huntsman's bugle-blast,
When his phantom-train are hurrying past.
Popular tradition has made several mountains in Germany the haunt of the wild Jäger, or supernatural huntsman—the superstitious tales relating to the Unterburg are recorded in Eustace's Classical Tour; and it is still believed in the romantic district of the Odenwald, that the knight of Rodenstein, issuing from his ruined castle, announces the approach of war by traversing the air with a noisy armament to the opposite castle of Schnellerts.-See the "Manuel pour les Voyageurs sur le Rhin," and "Autumn on the Rhine."
