l. 3136. H.-So. corrects (after B.) to äðeling_c_, the MS. having _e_. l. 3145. "It was their [the Icelanders'] belief that the higher the smoke rose in the air the more glorious would the burnt man be in heaven."-- _Ynglinga Saga_, 10 (quoted by E.). Cf. the funeral pyre of Herakles. l. 3146-3147. B. conjectures: ... swôgende lêc wôpe bewunden windblonda lêg (lêc from lâcan, see Gloss.).--_Beit._ xii. 110. Why not windblonda lâc? l. 3147. Müllenhoff rejected wind-blond geläg because a great fire raises rather than "lays" the wind; hence B., as above, = "swoughing sported the flame wound with the howling of wind-currents." l. 3151 _seq._ B. restores conjecturally: swylce giômor-gyd sio geó-meowle [äfter Beówulfe] bunden-heorde [song] sorg-cearig, sæde geneahhe, þät hió hyre [hearm-]dagas hearde on [dr]êde, wälfylla worn, [w]îgendes egesan, hý[n]ðo ond häftnýd, heóf on rîce wealg. --_Beit._ xii. 100. Here geó-meowle = _old woman_ or _widow;_ bunden-heorde = _with bound locks;_ heóf = _lamentation;_ cf. l. 3143. on rîce wealg is less preferable than the MS. reading, heofon rêce swealg = _heaven swallowed the smoke_.-- H.-So. B. thinks Beowulf's widow (geómeowle) was probably Hygd; cf. ll. 2370, 3017-3021. l. 3162. H.-So. reads (with MS.) bronda be lâfe, for betost, and omits colon after bêcn. So B., _Zachers Zeitschr._ iv. 224. l. 3171. E. quotes Gibbon's accounts of the burial of Attila when the "chosen squadrons of the Hun, wheeling round in measured evolutions, chanted a funeral song to the memory of a hero." ll. 3173-3174. B. proposes: woldon gên cwîðan [ond] kyning wordgyd wrecan ond ymb wel sprecan. --_Beit._ xii. 112. l. 3183. Z., K., Th. read manna for mannum. l. 3184. "It is the English ideal of a hero as it was conceived by an Englishman some twelve hundred years ago."--Br., p. 18. NOTES TO THE FIGHT AT FINNSBURG. The original MS. of this fragment has vanished, but a copy had been made and printed by Hickes in his _Thesaurus Linguarum Septentrionalium_, i. 192. The original was written on a single sheet attached to a codex of homilies in the Lambeth Library. Möller, _Alteng. Epos_, p. 65, places the fragment in the Finn episode, between ll. 1146 and 1147. Bugge (_Beit._ xii. 20) makes it illustrate the conflict in which Hnäf fell, _i.e._ as described in _Beówulf_ as antecedent to the events there given. Heinzel (_Anzeiger f. d. Altert_.), however, calls attention to the fact that Hengest in the fragment is called cyning, whereas in _Beówulf_, l. 1086, he is called þegn. See H.-So., p. 125. "The _Fight at Finnsburg_ and the lays from which our _Beówulf_ was composed were, as it seems to me, sung among the English who dwelt in the north of Denmark and the south of Sweden, and whose tribal name was the Jutes or Goths."--Br., p. 101.