Comments on: A bundle of selves http://acandystore.org/books/archives/2006/07/29/a-bundle-of-selves Overheard in a library Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:34:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Will http://acandystore.org/books/archives/2006/07/29/a-bundle-of-selves#comment-5 Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:42:20 +0000 http://acandystore.org/books/archives/2006/07/29/a-bundle-of-selves#comment-5 Everything2.com says "Troth" (from the same root word as "Truth") is "An Anglo-Saxon concept which meant continuity of personhood. Honorable and trustworthy people were thought to be so only because they had troth; they would continue to be the same person who had made a promise or raised an expectation in previous times." That doesn't really indicate its importance in the medieval period. One of the most famous graves in the world reads simply "Here lies Edward I, the Hammer of the Scots. Keep troth." Everything2.com says “Troth” (from the same root word as “Truth”) is “An Anglo-Saxon concept which meant continuity of personhood. Honorable and trustworthy people were thought to be so only because they had troth; they would continue to be the same person who had made a promise or raised an expectation in previous times.”

That doesn’t really indicate its importance in the medieval period. One of the most famous graves in the world reads simply “Here lies Edward I, the Hammer of the Scots. Keep troth.”

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