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A company of attendants. (Norman, meignal and mesnie, a household, our menial.)
“With that the smiling Kriemhild forth stepped a little space,
And Brunhild and her meiny greeted with gentle grace.”
Lettsom’s Nibelungen Lied, stanza 604.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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