Lettowe

English Proper noun en proper noun en Lettow. Middle English enm 2026 March 11 Alternative forms enm Lettow Etymology enm :bor gml:Lettouwen<ety:bor<orv:Литъва<ety:bor<olt:Lietuva>>>> 1 enm gml Lettouwen (compare gmh Lettowen, gmh Littowen), from enm orv Литъва or its etymon enm olt Lietuva. Pronunciation enm /ˈlɛtɔu̯(ə)/ Proper noun enm Lithuania Q37 Hg Prologue 2 yes https://viewer.library.wales/4628556#?#&cv=15 fful ofte tẏme / he hadde the boꝛd bıgonne / Abouen alle nacıouns ın Pruce / In lettow / hadde he reẏſed / and ın Ruce / No crısten man / so ofte of hıs degree Plenty of times he headed the Table [of Honour] / above every nation in Prussia; / in Lithuania and Russia, he'd campaigned more often than any other Christian man of his station. enm c. 1400 Morte Arthure the Alliterative Morte Arthure 602-605 Morte Arthure, or The Death of Arthur Edmund Brock 1937 1865 EETS Original Series 8 19 Oxford University Press London https://archive.org/details/mortearthurebrock3rdrepr/page/n41 Be that the Grekes were graythede, a fulle gret nombyre, / the myghtyeste of Macedone, with men of þa marches; / Pulle and Pruyslande presses with oþer, / The legemen of Lettow with legyons ynewe By then the Greeks were gathered in a very great number: / the mightiest of Macedonia, with men from those margins; / Apulia and Prussia push with another [force], / the liegemen of Lithuania with many legions enm c. 1410–1420 Þe buke of John Maundeuill Mandeville's Travels, Egerton MS. 1982 Le Livre des merveilles du monde frm The buke of John Maundeuill being the travels of Sir John Mandeville, knight, 1322-1356 c. 1355-1357 George F. Warner 1889 65 Roxburghe Club Westminster https://archive.org/details/thebukeofjohnmaundeuill/page/65 Bot I hafe bene in oþer landes þat marchez þeron, as þe land of Russy and Nyfland and þe kingdom of Crakow and Lettow and in þe kingdom of Graften and many oþer placez. But I've been in other countries that are next to it, like the lands of Russia and Livonia, the kingdom of Krakow and Lithuania, the kingdom of Graften, and many other places. The reference to the "kingdom of Krakow and Lithuania" is either an error or a later interpolation since the kingdoms did not enter into a personal union until 1386, while the identity of the "kingdom of Graften" is unclear.Kaliszuk Jerzy Recepcja „Podróży” Johna Mandeville’a w Polsce późnego średniowiecza i u progu czasów nowożytnych Przegląd Historyczny 89 3 346 1998 Muzeum Historii Polski https://bazhum.muzhp.pl/media/texts/przeglad-historyczny/1998-tom-89-numer-3/przeglad_historyczny-r1998-t89-n3-s343-359.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20260313132552/https://bazhum.muzhp.pl/media/texts/przeglad-historyczny/1998-tom-89-numer-3/przeglad_historyczny-r1998-t89-n3-s343-359.pdf 13 March 2026 Descendants en Lettow obsolete 1 References