[Footnote 6: line 186b. This line is apparently imperfect, metrically, for the second hemistich seems to be wanting. As the sense is complete, without emendation, I have not followed the various scholars who would insert after "Adam's bride" some such clause as, "Whom God named Eve."] [Footnote 7: ll. 221-224a. The text here is corrupt and scholars differ widely in their conjectural emendations and interpretations. Since none of their versions is satisfactory or convincing, I venture upon an independent reading. _Hebeleac_, of course, is the Scriptural Havilah (Gen. 2.11); _Fison_ is obviously Pison, and _Geon_, 230b inf., is Gihon.] [Footnote 8: ll. 226, 227a. I construe _the best_ with _gold and gems_, rather than with _sons of men_, because of Gen. 2.12.] [Footnote 9: ll. 235-851. After line 234 there is a break in the MS. Sievers has shown that the following 617 lines, called _Genesis B_, were written and interpolated later, by a different hand, and have Old Saxon affiliations. _Genesis B_ describes the Fall of Man and also gives a new version of the revolt and overthrow of Satan. _Genesis A_ begins again, at line 852, with the conversation between Adam and Eve and Jehovah (Gen. 3.8 ff.).] [Footnote 10: line 872. I follow the divisions of the MS. This line begins with the tenth large decorative initial, the others having occurred at ll. 1, 82, 135, 246, 389, 442, 547, 684, and 821. Where the editors so widely disagree as to the proper subdivisions of the poem, it seems safer to follow the original initializing (but not the marginal numbering of the original MS.: this skips from VII to XIII at line 440--doubtless accidentally substituting X for V--and is otherwise irregular). Cf. footnote, page vi, sup.--For lines 869-70, cf. _Jour. Eng. Germ. Phil._, 12.257.] [Footnote 11: line 1022. A hemistich seems to be missing here, metrically.] [Footnote 12: line 1125. A hemistich seems to be missing here, metrically.] [Footnote 13: line 1128. I here adopt Grein's emendation, reading _leod_ for _leof_.] [Footnote 14: line 1137. Cf. Gen. 4.26, with cross-references, alternative translation, etc.] [Footnote 15: line 1150. I follow Grein in supplying _wintra_ to complete a metrically imperfect line.] [Footnote 16: line 1199. A hemistich seems to be missing here, metrically; and surely the sense requires the interpolation of several lines, to record the birth of Methuselah in Enoch's 65th year. Cf. Gen. 5.21.] [Footnote 17: line 1211. We may restore the last word of this line, _fan_ in the MS., either as tautological _frean_, with Dietrich, or as tautological _feran_, with Grein.] [Footnote 18: line 1405. I follow Dietrich in reading _edniowe = self-renewing_, for the meaningless _edmonne_ in the MS.]