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 248 NOTES AND QUERIES. [& is. 8=1.2*. mi. My wife's maiden name being Butler although she claims no descent from this branch of the family she was graciously pre- sented by the Lord of the Manor with this precious relic. These arms undoubtedly belong to one of the many British officers that served in the Low Countries in the sixteenth, seven- teenth and eighteenth centuries, and con- tracted alliances over there. Can anybody trace these Butlers to a known branch in England ? Many of these mementoes of armigerous British gentlemen and ladies can still be found in the Netherlands, although the majority of them have been destroyed, and those that still exist could probably not be so easily acquired or in such interesting cir- cumstances as ours was. W. DEL COURT. 47, Blenheim Crescent, W. 11. " OTHERWHERE " OMITTED IN TENNYSON 'CONCORDANCE. Lovers of Tennyson owe a debt o,' gratitude to Mr. Arthur Baker for his admirable Concordance to the poet's works. But the greater its merits, the more should those who use it help the compiler to make it quite faultless. Mr. Baker will probably therefore be glad to have his attention drawn to an omission (the only one, I may add, that I have detected). The word " otherwhere," which occurs in ' In Memoriam,' Ixxxii. 12, seems not to have been recorded. ALEX. LEEPER. Armadale, Melbourne. WHERE WAS THE LAND OF GORE ? We are told in the ' Morte D' Arthur ' (Book xvii., ch. xdii.) that Sir Launcelot visited King Pelles at the Castle of Carbonek and that he was greatly honoured by an appear- ance of the Holy Grail. This castle is also called Coibin. When Sir Launcelot left Corbin he went to Camelot or Winchester, and on the way, in the country of Logres, he stopped at a White Abbey wherein was the tomb of his much-loved friend Bagdema- gus, the King of Gore. In the next chapter we are told that this abbey was in the Land of Gore. Hence this kingdom was supposed to be in the realm of Logres, as the trouveres called England. Welshmen still call our country Lloegyr. Moreover Gore lay be- tween Cor Bin, i.e., Vinovia (our Binchester), and Cair Benet, i.e., Venta Belgarum (our Winchester). Scribal errors have turned Cair Benet into Cambenet and Cambenek. Now what O.E. land-name is postulated by " Gore " ? The Venerable Bede tells us of a " prou- incia Gyruiorum " ; of a " princeps Austra- lium Gyruiorum uocabulo Tond beret " ; and of a monastery (i.e., Peterborough) at a place called " Medeshamstedi, in regione Gyruiorum." In the Anglo -Saxon version of Bede " Australium Gyruiorum " is ren- dered by " Sudgyrwa." In the Tribal Hidage of circa A.D. 1000 we get a Suth Gyrwa and a North Gyrwa, near to Lindsey and Spalda, [land]. The hole of Gyrwaland was assessed at 1 ,200 hides. We are also told in an ancient hagiographical tract that " Cruland " (Croyland) was " on middan Girwanfenne." The medial n here is redun- dant and erroneous. The upward history of the forms cited is as follows : " Girwi " > " Gyrwi " > *Gierwi > *Gearwi > *Garwi. This course of vo- calic infection is strictly according to phonetic law and is fully explained "with regard to other words by Professor Joseph Wright in his O.E. Grammar, 66, 67, 170, 264 and 385. In the Ravennate ' Geographia ' we find a British river-name " Sarua," which is prob- ably the Leicestershire Soar. Similarly This locates the realm of " Bagdemagus " in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire, and it can be proved that it extended into Lei- cestershire and Warwickshire. The royal name " Bagdemag " is a scribal error for Bardemar, and the headword of that Ger- manic name is found in Lincolnshire both in its O.E. unshifted form and in its Alemannic and shifted form : cp. the " Beardaneu " (Bardney) and " Peartaneu " (Partney) of the Venerable Bede (' H.E.' III., xi., p. 149, ed. Plummer.) ALFRED ANSCOMBE. 30, Albany Road, Stroud Green, N.4. Music TRANSMITTED BY WIRELESS. What is probably the first occasion upon which music has been transmitted by wire- less is surely deserving of a note in ' N. & Q.' Part of the music of a new ballet to be introduced into the present Hippo- drome revue, 'The Peep Show,' was com- posed by Mr. James W. Tate in mid-Atlantic while en route to America. It was trans- mitted to London by wireless via Devizes,
 * Garwa would become '* Gore."