Count Robert of Paris. Вальтер Скотт

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      Примечания

      1

      See volume IX. of the New Edition of the Waverley Novels, p. 241, for some circumstances attending this erection.

      2

      Tale of Mirglip the Persian, in the Tales of the Genii

      3

      See Gibbon, Chap. XLVIII., for the origin and early history of the house of the Comneni.

      4

      Bohemond, son of Robert Guisc

Примечания

1

See volume IX. of the New Edition of the Waverley Novels, p. 241, for some circumstances attending this erection.

2

Tale of Mirglip the Persian, in the Tales of the Genii

3

See Gibbon, Chap. XLVIII., for the origin and early history of the house of the Comneni.

4

Bohemond, son of Robert Guiscard, the Norman conqueror of Apulia, Calabria, and Sicily, was, at the time when the first crusade began, Count of Tarentum. Though far advanced in life, he eagerly joined the expedition of the Latins, and became Prince of Antioch. For details of his adventures., death, and extraordinary character, see Gibbon, Chap. LIX., and Mills' History of the Crusades, Vol. I.

5

See Gibbon, Chap. LVI.

6

Note I. p. 50. Constantinople.

7

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Chapter LV. Vol. X. p. 221, 8vo edition.

8

Ducange has poured forth a tide of learning on this curious subject, which will be found in his Notes on Villehardouin's Constantinople under the French Emperors – Paris, 3637, folio, p. 196. Gibbon's History may also be consulted., Vol, X. p. 231. [See Note II. at the end of the Chapter.]

9

One tuft is left on the shaven crown of the Moslem, for the angel to grasp by, when conveying him to Paradise.

10

Literally, the First Swordsman.

11

The harbour of Constantinople.

12

The daughter of the arch was a courtly expression for the echo, as we find explained by the courtly commander himself.

13

This palace derived its name from the neighbouring Blachernian Gate and Bridge,