"Warling" Quotes from Famous Books
... of Mortain, and all that went with the castle of Mortain, passed to his son William the Warling.[41] Such seems to be the obvious English shape of Warlencus; but we have a natural curiosity to know what a Warling is, and why William was so called. The name has an attractive sound, and some have seen in it that same approach to a warlock which ... — Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine • Edward A. Freeman |