l. 1. R. supposes [hor]nas, and conjectures such an introductory conversation as follows: "Is it dawning in the east, or is a fiery dragon flying about, or are the turrets of some castle burning?" questions which the king negatives in the same order. Then comes the positive declaration, "rather they are warriors marching whose armor gleams in the moonlight." --_Alt- und Angels. Lesebuch_, 1861. Heinzel and B. conjecture, [beorhtor hor]nas byrnað næfre. So. G.--_Beit._ xii. 22; _Anzeiger f. d. Altert._ x. 229. l. 5. B. conjectures fugelas to mean _arrows_, and supplies: ac hêr forð berað [fyrdsearu rincas, flacre flânbogan], fugelas singað. He compares Saxo, p. 95, _cristatis galeis hastisque sonantibus instant_, as explanatory of l. 6.--_Beit._ xii. 22. But see Brooke, _Early Eng. Literature_, who supposes fugelas = _raven_ and _eagle_, while græg-hama is = _wulf_ (the "grey-coated one"), the ordinary accompaniers of battle. l. 11. hicgeað, etc.: cf. _Maldon_, l. 5; _Exod_. l. 218. l. 15. Cf. B. (_Beit._ xii. 25), etc., and Saxo, p. 101, for l. 13. ll. 18-21. H.-So. remarks: "If, according to Möller and Bugge, Gârulf is one of the attackers, one of Finn's men, this does not harmonize with his character as Gûðlâf's son (l. 33), who (l. 16, and _Beówulf_, l. 1149) is a Dane, therefore one of Finn's antagonists." B. (_Beit._ xii. 25) conjectures: þâ gyt Gûðdene Gârulf styrode, þät hê swâ freólîc feorh forman sîðe tô þære healle durum hyrsta ne bære, nû hîe nîða heard ânyman wolde; in which Gûðdene is the same as Sigeferð, l. 24; hê (l. 22) refers to Gârulf; and hîe (l. 21) to hyrsta. l. 27. swäðer = _either_ (bad or good, life or death).--H.-So. l. 29. cêlod: meaning doubtful; cf. _Maldon_, l. 283. G. renders "curved board"; Sw. suggests "round"? "hollow"? l. 30. B. suggests bâr-helm, = _boar-helm._ Cf. Saxo, p. 96.--_Beit._ xii. 26. l. 34. B. conjectures: (1) hwearf flacra hræw hräfen, wandrode; (2) hwearf flacra hræw hräfen fram ôðrum = _flew from one corpse to another_.--_Beit._ xii. 27. l. 43. B. supposes wund häleð to be a Dane, folces hyrde to be Hnäf, in opposition to Holtzmann (_Germania_, viii. 494), who supposes the wounded man to be a Frisian, and folces hyrde to be their king, Finn.--_Beit._ xii. 28. l. 45. B. adopts Th.'s reading heresceorp unhrôr = _equipments useless_.--_Beit._ xii. 28. l. 47. "Though wounded, they had retained their strength and activity in battle."--B., _Beit._ xii. 28. ADDENDA. ll. 105 and 218. MS. and Ho. read won-sæli and fâmi-heals. ll. 143, 183, 186, etc. Read þæm for þäm. l. 299. MS. reads gôd-fremmendra. So H.-So. l. 338. Ho. marks wräc- and its group long. l. 530. Hwät should here probably be printed as an interj., hwät! Cf. ll. 1, 943, 2249. l. 2263. Koeppel suggests nis for näs. The editors are much indebted to E. Koeppel (in _Eng. Stud._ xiii. 3) for numerous corrections in text and glossary.