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SBJ, ch. 7, p. 87.

⁷⁶ Ibid., p. 85.

⁷⁷ FL, pp. 62–3.

⁷⁸ SBJ, ch. 8, pp. 91–2.

⁷⁹ H.M.A. Guerber, Myths of the Norsemen from the Eddas and Sagas (1908).

⁸⁰ Donald A. Mackenzie, Teutonic Myth and Legend (1912).

⁸¹ Paul Henri Mallet, Northern Antiquities (1770; Bohn edn, 1847).

⁸² Corpus Poeticum Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue from the Earliest Times to the Thirteenth Century, ed. and trans. G. Vigfússon and Frederick York Powell (1883).

⁸³ SBJ, ch. 7, p. 88.

⁸⁴ Ibid., p. 89.

⁸⁵ Ibid., ch. 8, pp. 100–1.

⁸⁶ LP III, p. 305.

⁸⁷ Ibid., IV, p. 182.

⁸⁸ SBJ, ch. 9, p. 103.

⁸⁹ Ibid., p. 105.

⁹⁰ Ibid.

⁹¹ Ibid.

⁹² Ibid., ch. 9, p. 109.

⁹³ Ibid., p. 112.

⁹⁴ FL, p. 70.

⁹⁵ Ibid., p. 78.

⁹⁶ SBJ, ch. 9, p. 109.

⁹⁷ Ibid., p. 110.

⁹⁸ FL, p. 102.

⁹⁹ LP IV, letter of 12 July 1915, p. 327.

¹⁰⁰ LP V, p. 46. The entire poem, ‘Ballade of a Winter’s Morning’, is published in The Collected Poems of C.S. Lewis, ed. Walter Hooper (1994), pp. 234–5.

¹⁰¹ FL, p. 169.

¹⁰² George MacDonald: An Anthology (1946), Preface, pp. 20–1.

¹⁰³ FL, letter to Arthur Greeves of 27 September 1916, p. 225.

¹⁰⁴ LP IV, p. 279.

¹⁰⁵ Ibid., p. 305.

¹⁰⁶ Ibid., V, p. 17.

¹⁰⁷ SBJ, ch. 12, p. 143.

¹⁰⁸ FL, p. 262.

¹⁰⁹ LP V, pp. 159–60.

¹¹⁰ FL, p. 267.

¹¹¹ Ibid., p. 275.

¹¹² Ibid., pp. 277–8.

¹¹³ Ibid., p. 284.

¹¹⁴ Ibid., pp. 230–1.

¹¹⁵ Ibid., pp. 234–5.

¹¹⁶ The entire poem, ‘Couplets’, of which this is a part, is found in Collected Poems, pp. 140–1.

       2 OXFORD: THE WAR AND AFTER

Jack Lewis returned to Oxford on 20 March 1917, lodged in the same digs as before, and presented himself to take Responsions. In this exam he was ‘handsomely ploughed’,¹ on account of his inability to cope satisfactorily with mathematics – in particular algebra. In spite of this, however, he was allowed to come into residence in the Trinity Term so as to be able to pass into the Army by way of the University Officers’ Training Corps. From the academic point of view he was supposed to be reading for Responsions, and even went for algebra lessons to J.E. Campbell of Hertford College. But he never, in fact, passed Responsions; and after the war was able to take up his scholarship at Univ. without having done so, ex-servicemen being exempted from any need to pass it. ‘Otherwise,’ he commented, ‘I should have had to abandon the idea of going to Oxford.’²

      On Thursday, 26 April, after a three-week holiday in Belfast, he arrived at University College for his brief interlude before going into the Army. He matriculated on 28 April and joined the Officers’ Training Corps on 30 April.