l. 622. Cf. ll. 160, 1191, for the respective places of young and old. l. 623. Cf. the circlet of gold worn by Wealhþēow at l. 1164. l. 631. gyddode. Cf. Chaucer, _Prol._ l. 237 (ed. Morris): "Of _yeddynges_ he bar utterly the prys." Cf. _giddy_. l. 648. Kl. suggests a period after geþinged, especially as B. (_Tidskr._ viii. 57) has shown that oþþe is sometimes = ond. Th. supplies ne. l. 650. oþþe here and at ll. 2476, 3007, probably = _and_. l. 651. Cf. 704, where sceadu-genga (the _night-ganger_ of _Leechdoms_, ii. 344) is applied to the demon.--E. l. 659. Cf. l. 2431 for same formula, "to have and to hold" of the Marriage Service.--E. l. 681. B. considers þēah ... eal a precursor of Mod. Eng. _although_. l. 682. gōdra = _advantages in battle_ (Gr.), _battle-skill_ (Ha.), _skill in war_ (H.-So.). Might not nāt be changed to nah = ne + āh (cf. l. 2253), thus justifying the translation _ability_ (?) --_he has not the ability to_, etc. l. 695. Kl. reads hiera.--_Beit._ ix. 189. B. omits hīe as occurring in the previous hemistich.--_Beit._ xii. 89. l. 698. "Here Destiny is a web of cloth."--E., who compares the Greek Clotho, "spinster of fate." Women are also called "weavers of peace," as l. 1943. Cf. Kent's _Elene_, l. 88; _Wīdsīð_, l. 6, etc. l. 711. B. translates þā by _when_ and connects with the preceding sentences, thus rejecting the ordinary canto-division at l. 711. He objects to the use of cōm as principal vb. at ll. 703, 711, and 721. (_Beit_, xii.) l. 711. "Perhaps the Gnomic verse which tells of Thyrs, the giant, is written with Grendel in the writer's mind,--þyrs sceal on fenne gewunian āna inuan lande, _the giant shall dwell in the fen, alone in the land_ (Sweet's Read., p. 187)."--Br. p. 36. l. 717. Dietrich, in _Haupt._ xi. 419, quotes from AElfric, _Hom._ ii. 498: hē beworhte þā bigelsas mid gyldenum lǣfrum, _he covered the arches with gold-leaf_,--a Roman custom derived from Carthage. Cf. Mod. Eng. _oriel_ = _aureolum_, a gilded room.--E. (quoting Skeat). Cf. ll. 2257, 1097, 2247, 2103, 2702, 2283, 333, 1751, for various uses of gold-sheets. l. 720. B. and ten Br. suggest _hell-thane_ (Grendel) for heal-þegnas, and make hæle refer to Beowulf. Cf. l. 142. l. 723. Z. reads [ge]hrān. l. 727. For this use of standan, cf. ll. 2314, 2770; and Vergil, _Ecl._ ii. 26: "Cum placidum ventis _staret_ mare." l. 757. gedræg. _Tumult_ is one of the meanings of this word. Here, appar. = _occupation, lair_. l. 759. R. reads mōdega for gōda, "because the attribute cannot be separated from the word modified unless the two alliterate." l. 762. Cf. _Andreas_, l. 1537, for a similar use of ūt = _off_.--E. l. 769. The foreign words in _Bēowulf_ (as ceaster-here) are not numerous; others are (aside from proper names like _Cain, Abel_, etc.) dēofol (diabolus), candel (l. 1573), ancor (l. 303), scrīfan (for- ge-), segn (l. 47), gīgant (l. 113), mīl- (l. 1363), strǣt (l. 320), ombeht (l. 287), gim (l. 2073), etc.