M — Marrow Controversy to Martin (Part 3 of 3)

Martian Laws Laws compiled by Martia, wife of Guithelin, great-grandson of Mulmutius, who established in England the Mulmutian Laws. Alfred translated both these codes into Saxon-English.

“Guynteline ... whose queen, ... to show her upright mind,
To wise Malmutius' laws her Martian first did frame.”
Drayton: Polyolbion, viii.

Martin One of the swallow tribe. Dies derives the word from St. Martin, but St. Martin's bird is the raven.
   Martin. The ape, in the tale of Reynard the Fox.