Sidney Oldall Addy, The Hall of Waltheof — XV. Mushroom Hall… (1893)
“ A squatter, if I may so call him, had built hastily by the road which crossed the waste, the word westen being Old English for a waste or desert, and "Western Bank" being merely a popular and erroneous way of explaining a forgotten word. ”
Sidney Oldall Addy, The Hall of Waltheof — XV. Mushroom Hall… (1893)
“ Elsewhere he explains gift as "earnest money, (arrha) given in proof of hiring or leasing, and for a certain number of years." And then he mentions a word giftostämma which he defines as :the term agreed upon between the lord and his tenant, which is commonly said to be six years." ”
