l. 1202. B. conjectures geceás êcne ræd to mean _he became a pious man and at death went to heaven_. Heime (Hâma) in the _Thidrekssaga_ goes into a cloister = to choose the better part (?). Cf. H.-So., p. 98. But cf. Hrôðgâr's language to Beowulf, ll. 1760, 1761. l. 1211. S. proposes feoh, = _property_, for feorh, which would be a parallel for breóst-gewædu ... beáh below. l. 1213. E. remarks that in the _Laws of Cnut_, i. 26, the devil is called se wôdfreca werewulf, _the ravening werwolf_. l. 1215. C. proposes heals-bêge onfêng. _Beit._ viii. 570. For hreâ- Kl. suggests hræ-. l. 1227. The son referred to is, according to Ettmüller, the one that reigns after Hrôðgâr. l. 1229. Kl. suggests sî, = _be_, for _is_. l. 1232. S. gives _wine-elated_ as the meaning of druncne.--_Beit._ ix. 139; Kl. _ibid_. 189, 194. But cf. _Judith_, ll. 67, 107. l. 1235. Cf. l. 119 for similarity of language. l. 1235. Kl. proposes gea-sceaft; but cf. l. 1267. l. 1246. Ring armor was common in the Middle Ages. E. points out the numerous forms of byrne in cognate languages,--Gothic, Icelandic, OHG., Slavonic, O. Irish, Romance, etc. Du Chaillu, _The Viking Age_, i. 126. Cf. Murray's _Dict._ s. v. l. 1248. ânwîg-gearwe = _ready for single combat_ (C.); but cf. Ha. p. 43; _Beit._ ix. 210, 282. l. 1252. Some consider this _fitt_ the beginning of Part (or Lay) II. of the original epic, if not a separate work in itself. l. 1254. K., W., and Ho. read farode = _wasted;_ Kolbing reads furode; but cf. wêsten warode, l. 1266. MS. has warode. ll. 1255-1258. This passage is a good illustration of the constant parallelism of word and phrase characteristic of A.-S. poetry, and is quoted by Sw. The changes are rung on ende and swylt, on gesýne and wîdcûð, etc. l. 1259. "That this story of Grendel's mother was originally a separate lay from the first seems to be suggested by the fact that the monsters are described over again, and many new details added, such as would be inserted by a new singer who wished to enhance and adorn the original tale."--Br., p. 41. l. 1259. Cf. l. 107, which also points to the ancestry of murderers and monsters and their descent from "Cain." l. 1261. The MS. has se þe, m.; changed by some to seo þe. At ll. 1393, 1395, 1498, Grendel's mother is referred to as m.; at ll. 1293, 1505, 1541-1546, etc., as f., the uncertain pronoun designating a creature female in certain aspects, but masculine in demonic strength and savageness.--H.-So.; Sw. p. 202. Cf. the masc. epithets at ll. 1380, 2137, etc. l. 1270. âglæca = _Grendel_, though possibly referring to Beowulf, as at l. 1513.--Sw. l. 1273. "It is not certain whether anwalda stands for onwealda, or whether it should be read ânwealda, = _only ruler_.--Sw. l. 1279. The MS. has sunu þeod wrecan, which R. changes to sunu þeód-wrecan, þeód- = _monstrous_; but why not regard þeód as opposition to sunu, = _her son, the prince?_ See Sweet's Reader, and Körner's discussion, _Eng. Stud._ i. 500.