l. 3097. B. and S. propose æfter wine dēadum, = _in memory of the dead friend_.--_Beit._ ix. 144. l. 3106. The brād gold here possibly includes the iū-monna gold of l. 3053 and the wunden gold of l. 3135. E. translates brād by _bullion_. l. 3114. B. supposes folc-āgende to be dat. sg. to gōdum, referring to Beowulf. l. 3116. C. considers weaxan, = Lat. _vescor_, to devour, as a parallel to fretan, and discards parentheses.--_Beit._ viii. 573. l. 3120. fūs = _furnished with_; a meaning which must be added to those in the Gloss. ll. 3124-3125. S. proposes: ēode eahta sum under inwit-hrōf hilderinca: sum on handa bær, etc. --_Beit._ ix. 144. l. 3136. H.-So. corrects (after B.) to æðeling_c_, the MS. having _e_. l. 3145. "It was their [the Icelanders'] belief that the higher the smoke rose in the air the more glorious would the burnt man be in heaven."-- _Ynglinga Saga_, 10 (quoted by E.). Cf. the funeral pyre of Herakles. l. 3146-3147. B. conjectures: ... swōgende lēc wōpe bewunden windblonda lēg (lēc from lācan, see Gloss.).--_Beit._ xii. 110. Why not windblonda lāc? l. 3147. Müllenhoff rejected wind-blond gelæg because a great fire raises rather than "lays" the wind; hence B., as above, = "swoughing sported the flame wound with the howling of wind-currents." l. 3151 _seq._ B. restores conjecturally: swylce giōmor-gyd sio geō-meowle [æfter Bēowulfe] bunden-heorde [song] sorg-cearig, sǣde geneahhe, þæt hīo hyre [hearm-]dagas hearde on [dr]ēde, wælfylla worn, [w]īgendes egesan, hȳ[n]ðo ond hæftnȳd, hēof on rīce wealg. --_Beit._ xii. 100. Here geō-meowle = _old woman_ or _widow;_ bunden-heorde = _with bound locks;_ hēof = _lamentation;_ cf. l. 3143. on rīce wealg is less preferable than the MS. reading, heofon rēce swealg = _heaven swallowed the smoke_.--H.-So. B. thinks Beowulf's widow (geōmeowle) was probably Hygd; cf. ll. 2370, 3017-3021. l. 3162. H.-So. reads (with MS.) bronda be lāfe, for betost, and omits colon after bēcn. So B., _Zachers Zeitschr._ iv. 224. l. 3171. E. quotes Gibbon's accounts of the burial of Attila when the "chosen squadrons of the Hun, wheeling round in measured evolutions, chanted a funeral song to the memory of a hero." ll. 3173-3174. B. proposes: woldon gēn cwīðan [ond] kyning wordgyd wrecan ond ymb wēl sprecan. --_Beit._ xii. 112. l. 3183. Z., K., Th. read manna for mannum. l. 3184. "It is the English ideal of a hero as it was conceived by an Englishman some twelve hundred years ago."--Br., p. 18. NOTES TO THE FIGHT AT FINNSBURG.