Hibernian knights underthaner

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  • Hibernian Nights' Entertainment: collection of tales, collected by Sir Samuel Ferguson and published in 1834 (with new edition in 1904); the framing device of the book involves a prisoner at Dublin Castle telling the tales to pass the time.
  • Untertan (German): vassal, subject
  • thane: Scottish or Anglo-Saxon feudal lord