Course glossary

A corrie loch (also known as a tarn) is a mountain lake or pool.

Ein kleiner Bergsee.

Kubla (or Kublai) Khan was the founder of the Yuan dynasty in China.

For the Lakes poets, it meant that they were the Official Royal Poet.

A lake or pond -any body of water -see Grasmere or Windermere.

thoughtful (as "In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye" in Wordsworth's "Daffodils".

A tarn (also known as a corrie loch) is a mountain lake or pool.

A clearing, a piece of cleared forest land.

This was in what is now Inner Mongolia and was the summer capital of the Dynasty of Kubla Khan