l. 2264. Cf. _Maldon_, ll. 8, 9, for a reference to hawking. l. 2276. Z. suggests swýðe ondrædað; Ho. puts gesêcean for Gr.'s gewunian. l. 2277. Z. and K. read: hord on hrûsan. "Three hundred winters," at l. 2279, is probably conventional for "a long time," like hund missera, l. 1499; hund þûsenda, l. 2995; þritig (of Beowulf's strength), l. 379; þritig (of the men slain by Grendel), l. 123; seofan þûsendo, l. 2196, etc. l. 2285. B. objects to hord as repeated in ll. 2284, 2285; but cf. Ha., p. 77. C. prefers sum to hord. onboren = _inminutus_; cf. B., _Beit._ xii. 102. l. 2285. onberan is found also at line 991, = _carry off_, with on- = E. _un--(un-bind, -loose, -tie_, etc.), G. _ent-_. The negro still pronounces _on-do_, etc. l. 2299. Cf. H.-So., p. 112, for a defense of the text as it stands. B. proposes "nor was there any man in that desert who rejoiced in conflict," etc. So ten Br. l. 2326. B. and ten Br,. propose hâm, = _home_, for him.--_Beit._ xii. 103. l. 2335. E. translates eálond utan by _the sea-board front, the water-washed land on the (its) outside_. See B., _Beit._ xii. 1, 5. l. 2346. Cf. l. 425, where Beowulf resolves to fight the dragon single-handed. E. compares _Guy of Warwick_, ll. 49, 376. l. 2355. Ten Br. proposes laðan cynne as apposition to mægum. l. 2360. Cf. Beowulf's other swimming-feat with Breca, ll. 506 _seq._ l. 2362. Gr. inserts âna, = _lone-going_, before xxx.: approved by B.; and Krüger, _Beit._ ix. 575. Cf. l. 379. l. 2362. "Beowulf has the strength of thirty men in the original tale. Here, then, the new inventor makes him carry off thirty coats of mail."--Br., p. 48. l. 2364. Hetware = Chattuarii, a nation allied against Hygelâc in his Frisian expedition; cf. ll. 1208 _seq._, 2917, etc. l. 2368. B. proposes _quiet sea_ as trans, of sióleða bigong, and compares Goth. _anasilan_, to be still; Swed. dial, _sil_, still water between waterfalls.--_Zachers Zeitschr._ iv. 214. l. 2380. hyne--Heardrêd; so him, l. 2358. l. 2384. E. calls attention to Swió-rîce as identical with the modern _Sverige_ = Sweden; cf. l. 2496. l. 2386. Gr. reads on feorme, = _at the banquet_; cf. Möller, _Alteng. Volksepos_, 111, who reads (f)or feorme. The MS. has or. l. 2391. Cf. l. 11. l. 2394. B., Gr., and Mûllenh. understand ll. 2393-2397 to mean that Eádgils, Ôhthere's son, driven from Sweden, returns later, supported by Beowulf, takes the life of his uncle Onela, and probably becomes himself O.'s successor and king of Sweden. For another view see H.-So., p. 115. MS. has freond (l. 2394), which Leo, etc., change to feónd. G. translates _friend_.--_Beit._ xii. 13; _Anzeiger f. d. Altert_. iii. 177. l. 2395. Eádgils is Ôhthere's son; cf. l. 2381; Onela is Ôhthere's brother; cf. ll. 2933, 2617.