http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/ T.H. White Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:13:44 GMT roncriss http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/message/146 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/message/146 "Later Royal charters and other documents from Mercian kings and King Ælfred, Edward the Elder and Æþelstan all mention hawks or falcons but name no Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:05:05 GMT roncriss http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/message/145 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/message/145 The O.E. dictionary consulted translates "heron" as "herein". Hares are indeed hunted with hawks. I still think its "hares". Maybe rabbits and hares. Ron Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:39:40 GMT davjms http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/message/144 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/message/144 I actually had another gentleman e-mail me and he said he thought that "harn" was referring to heron, which hawks were often used to hunt. I really think he's Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:15:58 GMT roncriss http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/message/143 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/message/143 I'm voting for "hares". Ron Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:15:46 GMT roncriss http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/message/142 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/message/142 Oh. It wasn't in the Old English dictionary I consulted. Ron Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:33:31 GMT davjms http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/message/141 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/message/141 I actually considered that "harn" may refer to hare but I wasn't sure if a hare was too big to be hunted by a goshawk. Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:18:57 GMT davjms http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/message/140 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/message/140 Coney is the Old or Middle English word for rabbit. It comes from the Anglo-French word conis. Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:58:35 GMT roncriss http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/message/139 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/message/139 I think that "harn" may be "hare" or "hares" (haren? is that plural?). How did yu get "rabbits" from "conays"? Ron Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:47:31 GMT davjms http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/message/138 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/message/138 I have a question that may be rather rudimentary for most but I cannot find the answer. In the first chapter of the first book when Kay and Wart go into the Sun, 01 Mar 2009 08:17:06 GMT http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/message/137 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/message/137 A T.H. White Bibliography Novels Top Darkness at Pemberley (1932) First Lesson (1932) (writing as James Aston) They Winter Abroad (1932) (writing as James Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:21:46 GMT http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/message/136 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/message/136 A T.H. White Bibliography Novels Top Darkness at Pemberley (1932) First Lesson (1932) (writing as James Aston) They Winter Abroad (1932) (writing as James Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:34:16 GMT http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/message/135 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/message/135 A T.H. White Bibliography Novels Top Darkness at Pemberley (1932) First Lesson (1932) (writing as James Aston) They Winter Abroad (1932) (writing as James Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:43:48 GMT http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/message/134 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/message/134 A T.H. White Bibliography Novels Top Darkness at Pemberley (1932) First Lesson (1932) (writing as James Aston) They Winter Abroad (1932) (writing as James Sat, 01 Nov 2008 07:47:22 GMT http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/message/133 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/message/133 A T.H. White Bibliography Novels Top Darkness at Pemberley (1932) First Lesson (1932) (writing as James Aston) They Winter Abroad (1932) (writing as James Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:59:04 GMT http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/message/132 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thwhite/message/132 A T.H. White Bibliography Novels Top Darkness at Pemberley (1932) First Lesson (1932) (writing as James Aston) They Winter Abroad (1932) (writing as James