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John Mundy wrote: >Niemayer's cabana = cottage refers to Isidor's Etymologies bk 14, ch. 12 and Bernard-Bruel Chartes de Cluny I no. 221 (a. 920). the Bn Gallica site (http://gallica.bnf.fr/ ) seems not to have survived the millennium, but i'll keep trying to access it over the next several days. Among the texts which it has on line are the pre-1200 vols. of Bruel (which i also remembered as "Brunel"), though it is in an Acrobat format which makes it quite awkward to use for browsing, and searching for a specific word/string (e.g., "cabana") is not possible. still and all, a very useful resource if you have a specific reference to check out. (n.b., the RHGF, RHC, early vols of the Bibliotheque de l'école des chartes, some of the cartularies in the old Collection des documents inédits, and other stuff is/was also up on this site, with much more promised.) is Isidor not on the web anywhere? i can't seem to turn the old guy up. >All told, seems pretty common. yes. "a modest or marginal living structure" would seem to be the sense. the title on the postcard was perhaps a bit ironic. best from here, christopher ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%