l. 2778. B. considers bill ... ealdhlâfordes as Beowulf's short sword, with which he killed the dragon, l. 2704 (_Tidskr_. viii. 299). R. proposes ealdhlâforde. Müllenh. understands ealdhlâford to mean the former possessor of the hoard. W. agrees to this, but conceives ærgescôd as a compd. = ære calceatus, _sheathed in brass_. Ha. translates ærgescôd as vb. and adv. l. 2791. Cf. l. 224, eoletes ät ende; landes ät ende, _Exod_. (Hunt). l. 2792. MS. reads wäteres weorpan, which R. would change to wätere sweorfan. l. 2806. "Men saw from its height the whales tumbling in the waves, and called it Whale's Ness (Hrones-næs)."--Br. p. 28. Cf. l. 3137. l. 2815. Wîglâf was the next of kin, the last of the race, and hence the recipient of Beowulf's kingly insignia. There is a possible play on the word lâf (Wîg-_lâf_, ende-_lâf_). l. 2818. gingeste word; cf. _novissima verba_, and Ger. _jüngst_, lately. l. 2837. E. translates on lande, _in the world_, comparing _on lîfe, on worulde_. l. 2840. geræsde = pret. of geræsan (omitted from the Gloss.), same as ræsan; cf. l. 2691. l. 2859. B. proposes deáð ârædan, = _determine death_.--_Beit._ xii. 106. l. 2861. Change geongum to geongan as a scribal error (?), but cf. Lichtenheld, _Haupts Zeitschr._ xvi. 353-355. l. 2871. S. and W. propose ôwêr.--_Beit._ ix. 142. l. 2873. S. punctuates: wrâðe forwurpe, þâ, etc. l. 2874. H.-So. begins a new sentence with nealles, ending the preceding one with beget. l. 2879. ätgifan = _to render, to afford_; omitted in Gloss. ll. 2885-2892. "This passage ... equals the passage in Tacitus which describes the tie of chief to companion and companion to chief among the Germans, and which recounts the shame that fell on those who survived their lord."--Br., p. 56. l. 2886. cyn thus has the meaning of _gens_ or clan, just as in many Oriental towns all are of one blood. E. compares Tacitus, _Germania_, 7; and cf. "kith and kin." l. 2892. Death is preferable to dishonor. Cf. Kemble, _Saxons_, i. 235. l. 2901. The _[Greek: angelos]_ begins his _[Greek: angelia]_ here. l. 2910. S. proposes higemêðe, _sad of soul;_ cf. ll. 2853 and 2864 (_Beit._ ix. 142). B. considers higemêðum a dat. or instr. pl. of an abstract in -u (_Beit._ xii. 106). H. makes it a dat. pl. = _for the dead_. For heafod-wearde, etc., cf. note on l. 446. l. 2920-2921. B. explains "he could not this time, as usual, give jewels to his followers."--_Beit._ xii. 106. l. 2922. The Merovingian or Frankish race. l. 2940 _seq._ B. conjectures: cwäð hîe on mergenne mêces ecgum gêtan wolde, sumon galgtreowu âheáwan on holte ond hîe âhôan on þâ fuglum tô gamene. --_Beit._ xii. 107, 372. Cf. S., _Beit._ ix. 143. gêtan = _cause blood to be shed._ l. 2950. B. proposes gomela for gôda; "a surprising epithet for a Geat to apply to the 'terrible' Ongentheow."--Ha. p. 99. But "good" does not necessarily mean "morally excellent," as a "good" hater, a "good" fighter.