l. 2607. âre = _possessions, holding_ (Kl., _Beit._ ix. 192; Ha., p. 88). l. 2609. folcrihta. Add "folk-right" to the meanings in the Gloss.; and cf. êðel-, land-riht, word-riht. l. 2614. H.-So. reads with Gr. wræccan wineleásum Weohstân bana, = _whom, a friendless exile, W. had slain_. ll. 2635-61. E. quotes Tacitus, _Germania_, xiv.: "turpe comitatui virtutem principis non adaequare." Beowulf had been deserted by his _comitatus_. l. 2643. B. proposes ûser.--_Zachers Zeitschr._ iv. 216. l. 2649. wutun; l. 3102, uton = pres. subj. pl. 1st person of wîtan, _to go_, used like Mod. Eng. _let us_ + inf., Lat. _eamus_, Ital. _andiamo_, Fr. _allons_; M. E. (_Layamon_) _uten_. Cf. Psa. ii. 3, etc. March, _A.-S. Gram._, pp. 104, 196. l. 2650. B. suggests hât for hyt,.--_Beit._ xii. 105. l. 2656. fâne = fâh-ne; cf. fâra = fâh-ra, l. 578; so heánne (MS.) = heáh-ne, etc., l. 984. See Cook's Sievers' Gram. ll. 2660, 2661. Why not read beadu-scrûd, as at l. 453, = _battle-shirt?_ B. and R. suppose two half-verses omitted between byrdu-scrûd and bâm gemæne. B. reads býwdu, = _handsome_, etc. Gr. suggests unc nû, = _to us two now_, for ûrum; and K. and Grundt. read beón gemæne for bâm, etc. This makes sense. Cf. Ha., p. 89. l. 2666. Cf. the dat. absolute without preposition. l. 2681. Nägling; cf. Hrunting, Lâfing, and other famous wundor-smiða geweorc of the poem. l. 2687. B. changes þonne into þone (rel. pro.) = _which_.--_Beit._ xii. 105. l. 2688. B. supports the MS. reading, wundum. l. 2688. Cf. l. 2278 for similar language. l. 2698. B. (_Beit._ xii. 105) renders: "he did not heed the head of the dragon (which Beowulf with his sword had struck without effect), but he struck the dragon somewhat further down." Cf. Saxo, vi. p. 272. l. 2698. Cf. the language used at ll. 446 and 1373, where hafelan also occurs; and hýdan. l. 2700. hwêne; cf. Lowl. Sc. _wheen_, a number; Chaucer's _woon_, number. l. 2702. S. proposes þâ (for þät) þät fýr, etc., = _when the fire began_, etc. l. 2704. "The (hup)-seax has often been found in Saxon graves on the hip of the skeleton."--E. l. 2707. Kl. proposes: feorh ealne wräc, = _drove out all the life_; cf. _Gen._ l. 1385.--_Beit._ ix. 192. S. suggests gefylde,--_he felled the foe_, etc.--_Ibid_. Parentheses seem unnecessary. l. 2727. däg-hwîl = _time allotted, lifetime_. l. 2745, 2745. Ho. removes geong from the beginning of l. 2745 and places it at the end of l. 2744. l. 2750. R. proposes sigle searogimmas, as at l. 1158. l. 2767. (1) B. proposes doubtfully oferhîgean or oferhîgan, = Goth, _ufarhauhjan_, p. p. _ufarhauhids_ (Gr. [Greek: tuphwtheis]) = _exceed in value_.--_Tidskr_. viii. 60. (2) Kl. proposes oferhýdian, = _to make arrogant, infatuate_; cf. oferhýd.--_Beit._ ix. 192. l. 2770. gelocen leoðocräftum = (1) _spell-bound_ (Th., Arnold, E.); (2) _wrought with hand-craft_ (G.); (3) _meshed, linked together_ (H., Ho.); cf. _Elene_, ll. 1251, 522.