l. 304. Gering proposes hlēor-bergan = _cheek-protectors_; cf. _Beit._ xii. 26. "A bronze disk found at Öland in Sweden represents two warriors in helmets with boars as their crests, and cheek-guards under; these are the hlēor-bergan."--E. Cf. hauberk, with its diminutive habergeon, < A.-S. heals, _neck_ + beorgan, _to cover_ or _protect_; and harbor, < A.-S. here, _army_ + beorgan, id.--_Zachers Zeitschr._ xii. 123. Cf. cinberge, Hunt's _Exod._ l. 175. l. 305. For ferh wearde and gūðmōde grummon, B. and ten Br. read ferh-wearde (l. 305) and gūðmōdgum men (l. 306), = _the boar-images ... guarded the lives of the warlike men_. l. 311. lēoma: cf. Chaucer, _Nonne Preestes Tale_, l. 110, ed. Morris: "To dremen in here dremes Of armes, and of fyr with rede _lemes_." l. 318. On the double gender of sǣ, cf. Cook's Sievers' Gram., p. 147; and note the omitted article at ll. 2381, 318, 544, with the peculiar tmesis of _between_ at ll. 859, 1298, 1686, 1957. So _Cǣdmon_, l. 163 (Thorpe), _Exod._ l. 562 (Hunt), etc. l. 320. Cf. l. 924; and _Andreas_, l. 987, where almost the same words occur. "Here we have manifestly before our eye one of those ancient causeways, which are among the oldest visible institutions of civilization." --E. l. 322. S. inserts comma after scīr, and makes hring-īren (= _ring-mail_) parallel with gūð-byrne. l. 325. Cf. l. 397. "The deposit of weapons outside before entering a house was the rule at all periods.... In provincial Swedish almost everywhere a church porch is called våkenhus,... i.e. _weapon-house_, because the worshippers deposited their arms there before they entered the house."--E., after G. Stephens. l. 333. Cf. Dryden's "mingled metal _damask'd_ o'er with gold."--E. l. 336. "ǣl-, el-, kindred with Goth. _aljis_, other, e.g. in ǣlþéodig, elþéodig, foreign."--Cook's Sievers' Gram., p. 47. l. 336. Cf. l. 673 for the functions of an ombiht-þegn. l. 338. Ho. marks wræc- and its group long. l. 343. Cf. l. 1714 for the same bēod-genēatas,--"the predecessor title to that of the Knights of the Table Round."--E. Cf. _Andreas_ (K.), l. 2177. l. 344. The future is sometimes expressed by willan + inf., generally with some idea of volition involved; cf. ll. 351, 427, etc. Cf. the use of willan as principal vb. (with omitted inf.) at ll. 318, 1372, 543, 1056; and sculan, ll. 1784, 2817. l. 353. sīð here, and at l. 501, probably means _arrival_. E. translates the former by _visit_, the latter by _adventure_. l. 357. unhār = _hairless, bald_ (Gr., etc.). l. 358. ēode is only one of four or five preterits of gān (gongan, gangan, gengan), viz. gēong (gīong: ll. 926, 2410, etc.), gang (l. 1296, etc.), gengde (ll. 1402, 1413). Sievers, p. 217, apparently remarks that ēode is "probably used only in prose." (?!). Cf. geng, _Gen._ ll. 626, 834; _Exod._ (Hunt) l. 102.