l. 963. feónd þone frätgan (B. _Beit._ xii. 90). l. 976. synnum. "Most abstract words in the poetry have a very wide range of meanings, diverging widely from the prose usage, synn, for instance, means simply _injury, mischief, hatred_, and the prose meaning _sin_ is only a secondary one; hata in poetry is not only _hater_, but _persecutor, enemy_, just as nîð is both _hatred_ and _violence, strength_; heard is _sharp_ as well as _hard_."--Sw. l. 986. S. places wäs at end of l. 985 and reads stîðra nägla, omitting gehwylc and the commas after that and after sceáwedon. _Beit._ ix. 138; stêdra (H.-So.); hand-sporu (H.-So.) at l. 987. l. 986. Miller (_Anglia_, xii. 3) corrects to æghwylene, in apposition to fingras. l. 987. hand-sporu. See _Anglia_, vii. 176, for a discussion of the intrusion of u into the nom. of n-stems. l. 988. Cf. ll. 2121, 2414, for similar use of unheóru = ungeheuer. l. 992. B. suggests heátimbred for hâten, and gefrätwon for -od; Kl., hroden (_Beit._ ix. 189). l. 995, 996. Gold-embroidered tapestries seem to be meant by web = _aurifrisium_. l. 997. After þâra þe = _of those that_, the depend, vb. often takes sg. for pl.; cf. ll. 844, 1462, 2384, 2736.--Sw.; Dietrich. l. 998. "Metathesis of l takes place in seld for setl, bold for botl," etc.--Cook's Sievers' Gram., p. 96. Cf. Eng. proper names, _Bootle, Battle_field, etc.--Skeat, _Principles_, i. 250. l. 1000. heorras: cf. Chaucer, _Prol._ (ed. Morris) l. 550: "Ther was no dore that he nolde heve of _harre_." ll. 1005-1007. See _Zachers Zeitschr._ iii. 391, and _Beit._ xii. 368, for R.'s and B.'s views of this difficult passage. l. 1009. Cf. l. 1612 for sæl and mæl, surviving still in E. Anglia in "mind your _seals and meals_," = _times and occasions_, i.e. have your wits about you.--E. ll. 1012, 1013. Cf. ll. 753, 754 for two similar comparatives used in conjunction. l. 1014. Cf. l. 327 for similar language. ll. 1015, 1016. H.-So. puts these two lines in parentheses (fylle ... þâra). Cf. B., _Beit._ xii. 91. l. 1024. One of the many famous swords spoken of in the poem. See Hrunting, ll. 1458, 1660; Hûnlâfing, l. 1144, etc. Cf. Excalibur, Roland's sword, the Nibelung Balmung, etc. l. 1034. scûr-heard. For an ingenious explanation of this disputed word see Professor Pearce's article in _Mod. Lang. Notes_, Nov. 1, 1892, and ensuing discussion. l. 1039. eoderas is of doubtful meaning. H. and Toller-Bosw. regard the word here = _enclosure, palings of the court_. Cf. _Cædmon_, ll. 2439, 2481. The passage throws interesting light on horses and their trappings l. 1043. Grundt. emends wîg to wicg, = _charger_; and E. quotes Tacitus, _Germania_, 7. l. 1044. "Power over each and both"; cf. "all and some," "one and all." For Ingwin, see _List of Names_. l. 1065. Gr. contends that fore here = de, _concerning, about_ (Ebert's _Jahrb._, 1862, p. 269).