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• blackbirds → The Three Ravens (Downadown, High Downadown)

• bleak

• Henry V 2.3.17ff: (Hostess Quickly describing Sir John Falstaff’s Death, in the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays): “a Table of green fields”, which Lewis Theobald amended in 1726 to “a babld of green fields” (i.e. "he babbled of green fields")

• bard: a poet, especially one of the ancient Celtic order of formal poets and singers

• barred fields: Heraldic terms, identifying the verytableland with a coat-of-arms on the shield (seven wrothschields)

• Battle of the Blackbird Fields: better known as the Battle of Kosovo. An 1389 battle between Christian Serbia and the Ottoman Empire.