ll. 190, 1994. sēað: for this use of sēoðan cf. Bede, _Eccles. Hist._, ed. Miller, p. 128, where p. p. soden is thus used. l. 194. fram hām = _in his home_ (S., H.-So.); but fram hām may be for fram him (_from them_, i.e. _his people_, or _from Hrothgar's_). Cf. Ha., p. 8. l. 197. Cf. ll. 791, 807, for this fixed phrase. l. 200. See _Andreas, Elene_, and _Juliana_ for swan-rād (_= sea_). "The swan is said to breed wild now no further away than the North of Sweden." --E. Cf. ganotes bæð, l. 1862. l. 203. Concessive clauses with þēah, þēah þe, þēah ... eal, vary with subj. and ind., according as fact or contingency is dominant in the mind; cf. ll. 526, 1168, 2032, etc. (subj.), 1103, 1614 (ind.). Cf. gif, nefne. l. 204. hǣl, an OE. word found in Wülker's Glossaries in various forms, = _augury, omen, divination_, etc. Cf. hǣlsere, _augur_; hǣl, _omen;_ hǣlsung, _augurium_, hǣlsian, etc. Cf. Tac., _Germania_, 10. l. 207. C. adds "= _impetrare_" to the other meanings of findan given in the Gloss. l. 217. Cf. l. 1910; and _Andreas_, l. 993.--E. E. compares Byron's "And fast and falcon-like the vessel flew," --_Corsair_, i. 17. and Scott's "Merrily, merrily bounds the bark." --_Lord of the Isles_, iv. 7. l. 218. Cf. "The fomy stedes on the golden brydel Gnawinge." --Chaucer, _Knightes Tale_, l. 1648, ed. Morris. l 218. MS. and Ho. read fāmi-heals. l. 219. Does ān-tīd mean _hour_ (Th.), or _corresponding hour_ = ānd-tīd (H.-So.), or _in due time_ (E.), or _after a time_, when ōþres, etc., would be adv. gen.? See C., _Beit._ viii. 568. l. 224. eoletes may = (1) _voyage_; (2) _toil, labor_; (3) _hurried journey;_ but _sea_ or _fjord_ appears preferable. ll. 229-257. "The scenery ... is laid on the coast of the North Sea and the Kattegat, the first act of the poem among the Danes in Seeland, the second among the Geats in South Sweden."--Br., p. 15. l. 239. "A shoal of simple terms express in _Bēowulf_ the earliest sea-thoughts of the English.... The simplest term is Sǣ.... To this they added Wǣter, Flod, Stream, Lagu, Mere, Holm, Grund, Heathu, Sund, Brim, Garsecg, Eagor, Geofon, Fifel, Hron-rad, Swan-rad, Segl-rad, Ganotes-bǣð."--Br., p. 163-166. l. 239. "The infinitive is often used in poetry after a verb of motion where we should use the present participle."--Sw. Cf. ll. 711, 721, 1163 1803, 268, etc. Cf. German _spazieren fahren reiten_, etc., and similar constructions in French, etc. l. 240, W. reads hringed-stefnan for helmas bǣron. B. inserts (?) after holmas and begins a new line at the middle of the verse. S. omits B.'s "on the wall." l. 245. Double and triple negatives strengthen each other and do not produce an affirmative in A.-S. or M. E. The neg. is often prefixed to several emphatic words in the sentence, and readily contracts with vowels, and h or w; cf. ll. 863, 182, 2125, 1509, 575, 583, 3016, etc.