No special term was felt to be needed to describe the condition that was so common for most of the period of development of the English language.

Can anyone please help me out here?

I don't get it.

What was "so common" which would explain why there was no word to describe a parent who had lost a child?

If this doesn't make any more sense to anyone else than it does to me, why do we pretend it makes sense by ignoring it?

I think Faldage is deserving of more respect than that.

If no-one else can explain what Faldage means, maybe we should give Faldage a chance to do it for himself.

It seems only fair.