[banan ēac fundon bennum sēocne (nē) ǣr hī þǣm gesēgan syllīcran wiht] wyrm on wonge... --_Beit._ xii. 372. Cf. Ha., p. 102. W. and Ho. insert [þǣr] before gesēgan. l. 3042. Cf. l. 2561, where gryre-giest occurs as an epithet of the dragon. B. proposes gry[re-fāh]. l. 3044. lyft-wynne, _in the pride of the air_, E.; _to rejoice in the air_, Ha. l. 3057. (1) He (God) is men's hope; (2) he is the heroes' hope; (3) gehyld = the secret place of enchanters; cf. hēlsmanna gehyld, Gr.'s reading, after A.-S. hǣlsere, haruspex, augur. l. 3060. B. suggests gehȳðde, = _plundered_ (i.e. by the thief), for gehȳdde. ll. 3063-3066. (1) B. suggests wundur [dēaðe] hwār þonne eorl ellenrof ende gefēre = _let a brave man then somewhere meet his end by wondrous venture_, etc.--_Zachers Zeitschr._ iv. 241; cf. l. 3038. (2) S. supposes an indirect question introduced by hwār and dependent upon wundur, = _a mystery is it when it happens that the hero is to die, if he is no longer to linger among his people_.--_Beit._ ix. 143. (3) Müllenh. suggests: _is it to be wondered at that a man should die when he can no longer live?_--_Zachers Zeitschr._ xiv. 241. (4) Possibly thus: Wundrað hwæt þonne, eorl ellen-rōf, ende gefēre līf-gesceafta, þonne leng ne mæg (etc.), in which hwæt would = þurh hwæt at l. 3069, and eorl would be subject of the conjectural vb. wundrað: "the valiant earl wondereth then through what he shall attain his life's end, when he no longer may live. ... So Bēowulf knew not (wondered how) through what _his_ end should come," etc. W. and Ho. join þonne to the next line. Or, for hwār read wǣre: Wundur wǣre þonne (= gif), etc., = "would it be any wonder if a brave man," etc., which is virtually Müllenhoff's. l. 3053. galdre bewunden, _spell-bound_, throws light on l. 2770, gelocen leoðo-cræftum. The "accursed" gold of legend is often dragon-guarded and placed under a spell. Even human ashes (as Shakespeare's) are thus banned. ll. 3047-3058 recall the so-called "Treasury of Atreus." l. 3070. H.-So. begins a new line with swā. l. 3073. herh, hearh, _temple_, is conjectured by E. to survive in _Harrow. Temple, barrow_, etc., have thus been raised to proper names. Cf. Bīowulfes biorh of l. 2808. l. 3074. H.-So. has strude, = _ravage_, and compares l. 3127. MS. has strade. S. suggests stride, = _tread_. l. 3074. H.-So. omits strādan, = _tread, stride over_, from the Gloss., referring ll. 3174 and 3074 to strūdan, q. v. l. 3075. S. proposes: næs hē goldhwætes gearwor hæfde, etc., = _Beowulf had not before seen the greedy possessor's favor_.--_Beit._ ix. 143. B. reads, goldhwæte gearwor hæfde, etc., making goldhwæte modify ēst, = _golden favor_; but see _Beit._ xii. 373, for B.'s later view. l. 3086-3087. B. translates, "that which (i.e. the treasure) drew the king thither was granted indeed, but it overwhelmed us."--_Beit._ xii. 109.