(20) Ethiopie, fidèle à la Croix, by Maxime Cléret. Paris edition. Quote from The Templar Gold, by Maurice Guinguand and Beatrice Lanne. Ed. Apostrofe.
(21) Capitulum I, Liber peregrinationis, Codex Calixtinus.
(22) Town located at the mouth of the Danube, territory of what is now Romania. It came to be a symbol of cruelty and ferocity amongst the Romans. (Note 92 from the Medieval Pilgrim’s Guide, Codex Calixtinus, by Millan Bravo Lozano. Study Center of the Camino de Santiago.)
(23) Our Lady of the Orchards, present church of the Crucifix.
(24) Bridge-builder.
(25) Snake in French.
(26) Although the Crucifix was not at the Church of Our Lady of Orzs — known today as the Church of the Crucifix — at the time of the demise of the Order of the Temple (1314), a testament was recently found in the archives at the Casa Martija, in Puente la Reina, which places it in its current location before the 24th of June 1328.
(27) Literally, city of the Jews or Jewish quarter.
(28) Public prosecutor who also carried out the duties of a police officer. Caminos de Sefarad, by Juan G. Atienza, Ed. Robin Book.
(29) Elders. Id.
(30) In Hebrew, a woman of great talent and energy.
(31) “Blessed is the man who fears the Lord,” ps. 111.1
(32) Now known as Poyo Roldan, or for short, Poroldan.
(33) Son-in-law, stepson in Hebrew
(34) Father, in Hebrew.
(35) St. Dominic of the Causeway.
(36) Redecilla del Camino, in the original copy of the Codex Calixtinus.
(37) Belorado.
(38) River of the Goose.
(39) Mountains of the Goose.
(40) Nuestra Señora de Oca.
(41) San Juan de Ortega.
(42) Stamp.
(43) Former border province in south-east France.
(44) Roman name for the Mountains of Leon.
(45) A medieval fathom measures approximately 1.70 meters.
(46) Pliny the Elder (c. 23-79 AD), Roman writer and encyclopedist, highest scientific authority of ancient Europe.
(47) Scalprum -i, cutting instrument, chisel, gouge.
(48) Matias 10,26
(49) ‘There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse’ Isaiah 11, 1.
(50) Mt. 1, 1-16.
(51) Ex. 25, 10-22.
(52) I Sam. 5, 6; I Sam. 6, 19.
(53) No. 9, 15-23; Ex. 13, 21; x. 40, 34-38; I Kings 8, 10-11.
(54) A traditional house in the northeast of Spain.
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