英语词汇charles-s wain的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Charles’s Wain. Much legend surrounds Charlemagne, Charles the Great (742–814 a.d.), king of the Franks and founder of the Holy Roman Empire. Charlemagne is said to have been eight feet tall and so strong that he could bend three horseshoes at once. He had four wives and five mistresses who among them presented him with 50 children. Charles the Great was also associated, probably erroneously, with the legendary King Arthur. The constellation now better known as the Big Dipper, the Plough, Ursa Major, or the Great Bear was at one time called Arthur’s Wain because it resembled a wain, or wag- on of old, the stars in the handle of the Dipper being the wag- on’s shaft. Since there was a legendary association between Charles the Great and King Arthur, the star cluster called Arthur’s Wain eventually became known as Charles’s Wain, too.

词汇	charles-s wain
词源	Charles’s Wain. Much legend surrounds Charlemagne, Charles the Great (742–814 a.d.), king of the Franks and founder of the Holy Roman Empire. Charlemagne is said to have been eight feet tall and so strong that he could bend three horseshoes at once. He had four wives and five mistresses who among them presented him with 50 children. Charles the Great was also associated, probably erroneously, with the legendary King Arthur. The constellation now better known as the Big Dipper, the Plough, Ursa Major, or the Great Bear was at one time called Arthur’s Wain because it resembled a wain, or wag- on of old, the stars in the handle of the Dipper being the wag- on’s shaft. Since there was a legendary association between Charles the Great and King Arthur, the star cluster called Arthur’s Wain eventually became known as Charles’s Wain, too.
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