Walter Skeat noticed that the Anglo-Saxon words in these arms, thoughtfully glossed for Walpole, were all taken from the A entries in an Anglo-Saxon dictionary.

Donald S. Taylor, Thomas Chatterton’s Art: Experiments in Imagined History, p. 67 [PDF 78]

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