I. Beowulf: an Anglo-Saxon poem. II. The fight at Finnsburh: a fragment.
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I. Beowulf: an Anglo-Saxon poem. II. The fight at Finnsburh: a fragment.
Dragons -- Poetry; Epic poetry, English (Old); Monsters -- Poetry
þǣr: 1) demons. adv., _there (where)_, 32, 36, 89, 400, 757, etc.;
morðor-bealo māga, þǣr hēo ǣr mǣste hēold worolde wynne (_the death-bale of
kinsmen where before she had most worldly joy_), 1080. With þā: þā þǣr,
331; þǣr on innan (_therein_), 71. Almost like Eng. expletive _there_, 271,
550, 978, etc.;--_then, at that time_, 440;--_thither_: þǣr swīð-ferhðe
sittan ēodon (_thither went the bold ones to sit_, i.e. to the bench), 493,
etc.--2) relative, _where_, 356, 420, 508, 513, 522, 694, 867, etc.; ēode
... þǣr se snottra bād (_went where the wise one tarried_), 1314; so,
1816;--_if_, 763, 798, 1836, 2731, etc.;--_whither_: gā þǣr hē wille, 1395.
þē, þe, I. relative particle, indecl., partly standing alone, partly
associated with se, sēo, þæt: Hunferð maðelode, þē æt fōtum sæt (_H., who
sat at his feet, spake_), 500; so, 138, etc.; wæs þæt gewin tō swȳð þē on
þā lēode be-cōm (_the misery that had come on the people was too great_),
192, etc.; ic wille ... þē þā and-sware ǣdre ge-cȳðan þē mē se gōda
ā-gifan þenceð (_I will straightway tell thee the answer that the good one
shall give_), 355; oð þone ānne dæg þē hē ... (_till that very day that he_
...), 2401; hēo þā fǣhðe wræc þē þū ... Grendel cwealdest (_the fight in
which thou slewest G._), 1335; mid þǣre sorge þē him sīo sār belamp (_with
the sorrow wherewith the pain had visited him_), 2469; pl. þonne þā dydon
þē ... (_than they did that_ ...), 45; so, 378, 1136; þā māðmas þē hē mē
sealde (_the treasures that he gave me_), 2491; so, ginfæstan gife þē him
god sealde (_the great gifts that God had given him_), 2183. After þāra þe
(_of those that_), the depend. verb often takes sg. instead of pl.
(Dietrich, Haupt XI., 444 seqq.): wundor-sīona fela secga ge-hwylcum þāra
þe on swylc starað (_to each of those that look on such_), 997; so, 844,
1462, 2384, 2736. Strengthened by se, sēo, þæt: sægde sē þe cūðe (_said he
that knew_), 90; wæs se grimma gæst Grendel hāten, sē þe mōras hēold (_the
grim stranger hight Grendel, he that held the moors_), 103; here-byrne ...
sēo þe bān-cofan beorgan cūðe (_the corselet that could protect the body_),
1446, etc.; þǣr ge-lȳfan sceal dryhtnes dōme sē þe hine dēað nimeð (_he
shall believe in God's judgment whom death carrieth off_), 441; so, 1437,
1292 (cf. Heliand I., 1308).
þæs þe. See þæt.
þēah þe. See þēah.
for þām þe. See for-þām.
þȳ, þē, _the, by that_, instr. of se: āhte ic holdra þȳ lǣs ... þē dēað
for-nam (_I had the less friends whom death snatched away_), 488; so, 1437.
þeccan, w. v., _to cover_ (thatch), _cover over_: inf. þā sceal brond
fretan, ǣled þeccean (_fire shall eat, flame shall cover, the treasures_),
3016; pret. pl. þǣr git ēagor-strēam earmum þehton (_in swimming_), 513.
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