The phrase of the day is another header out of a medieval source; this time from the Continuatio Chronicarum of Adam of Murimuth. Are we sensing a theme here? Oh, maybe. I have a selection of Latin sources floating around my room and hard drive thanks to thesis research.
“Robertus le Bruys castrum Berwici cum villa acquisivit.”
Robertus le Bruys is a phonetic Latinization of “Robert the Bruce.”
castrum – noun; fort/fortress, camp (in its plural form), army, war service, a day’s march, a castle, fortress, fortified town
Berwici – noun; Berwick
cum – adv; with, together with
villa – noun; manor, house, farm/country estate, village
acquisivit (acquiro, acquiere, acquisivi, acquistus) – verb in its perfect active third person singular form; acquire, obtain, gain, get, add to stock, accrue
Robert the Bruce obtained the castle at Berwick with the village [at Berwick].
Strangely enough, this was hard to find in the text–almost everything was very long.
Stay tuned tomorrow!
