l. 1143. B., H.-So., and Möller read: worod rædenne, þonne him Hûn Lâfing, = _military brotherhood, when Hûn laid upon his breast_ (the sword) _Lâfing_. There is a sword _Laufi, Lövi_ in the Norse sagas; but swords, armor, etc., are often called the _leaving_ (lâf) of files, hammers, etc., especially a precious heirloom; cf. ll. 454, 1033, 2830, 2037, 2629, 796, etc., etc. l. 1152. roden = _reddened_ (B., _Tidskr_. viii. 295). l. 1160. For ll. 1069-1160, containing the Finn episode, cf. Möller, _Alteng. Volksepos_, 69, 86, 94; Heinzel, _Anz. f. dtsch. Altert._, 10, 226; B., _Beit._ xii. 29-37. Cf. _Wîdsîð_, l. 33, etc. ll. 1160, 1161. leóð (lied = _song, lay_) and gyd here appear synonyms. ll. 1162-1165. "Behind the wars and tribal wanderings, behind the contentions of the great, we watch in this poem the steady, continuous life of home, the passions and thoughts of men, the way they talked and moved and sang and drank and lived and loved among one another and for one another."--Br., p. 18. l. 1163. Cf. _wonderwork_. So _wonder-death, wonder-bidding, wonder-treasure, -smith, -sight_, etc. at ll. 1748, 3038, 2174, 1682, 996, etc. Cf. the German use of the same intensive, = _wondrous_, in _wunder-schön_, etc. l. 1165. þâ gyt points to some future event when "each" was not "true to other," undeveloped in this poem, suhtor-gefäderan = Hrôðgâr and Hrôðulf, l. 1018. Cf. âðum-swerian, l. 84. l. 1167 almost repeats l. 500, ät fôtum, etc., where Ûnferð is first introduced. l. 1191. E. sees in this passage separate seats for youth and middle-aged men, as in English college halls, chapels, convocations, and churches still. l. 1192. ymbutan, _round about_, is sometimes thus separated: ymb hie ûtan; cf. _Voyage of Ôhthere_, etc. (Sw.), p. 18, l. 34, etc.; _Beówulf_, ll. 859, 1686, etc. l. 1194. bewägned, a [Greek: hapax legomenon], tr. _offered_ by Th. Probably a p. p. wägen, made into a vb. by -ian, like _own, drown_, etc. Cf. hafenian ( < hafen, < hebban), etc. l. 1196. E. takes the expression to mean "mantle and its rings or broaches." "Rail" long survived in Mid. Eng. (_Piers Plow_., etc.). l. 1196. This necklace was afterwards given by Beowulf to Hygd, ll. 2173, 2174. ll. 1199-1215. From the obscure hints in the passage, a part of the poem may be approximately dated,--if Hygelâc is the _Chochi-laicus_ of Gregory of Tours, _Hist. Francorum_, iii. 3,--about A.D. 512-20. l. 1200. The Breosinga men (Icel. _Brisinga men_) is the necklace of the goddess Freya; cf. _Elder Edda, Hamarshemt_. Hâma stole the necklace from the Gothic King Eormenrîc; cf. _Traveller's Song_, ll. 8, 18, 88, 111. The comparison of the two necklaces leads the poet to anticipate Hygelâc's history,--a suggestion of the poem's mosaic construction. l. 1200. For Brôsinga mene, cf. B., _Beit._ xii. 72. C. suggests fleáh, = _fled_, for fealh, placing semicolon after byrig, and making hê subject of fleáh and geceás.