l. 1165. þā gȳt points to some future event when "each" was not "true to other," undeveloped in this poem, suhtor-gefæderan = Hrōðgār and Hrōðulf, l. 1018. Cf. āðum-swerian, l. 84. l. 1167 almost repeats l. 500, æt fōtum, etc., where Unferð is first introduced. l. 1191. E. sees in this passage separate seats for youth and middle-aged men, as in English college halls, chapels, convocations, and churches still. l. 1192. ymbutan, _round about_, is sometimes thus separated: ymb hīe ūtan; cf. _Voyage of Ōhthere_, etc. (Sw.), p. 18, l. 34, etc.; _Bēowulf_, ll. 859, 1686, etc. l. 1194. bewægned, a ἃπαξ λεγόμενον, tr. _offered_ by Th. Probably a p. p. wægen, made into a vb. by -ian, like _own, drown_, etc. Cf. hafenian ( < hafen, < hebban), etc. l. 1196. E. takes the expression to mean "mantle and its rings or broaches." "Rail" long survived in Mid. Eng. (_Piers Plow._, etc.). l. 1196. This necklace was afterwards given by Beowulf to Hygd, ll. 2173, 2174. ll. 1199-1215. From the obscure hints in the passage, a part of the poem may be approximately dated,--if Hygelāc is the _Chochi-laicus_ of Gregory of Tours, _Hist. Francorum_, iii. 3,--about A.D. 512-20. l. 1200. The Breosinga men (Icel. _Brisinga men_) is the necklace of the goddess Freya; cf. _Elder Edda, Hamarshemt._ Hāma stole the necklace from the Gothic King Eormenrīc; cf. _Traveller's Song_, ll. 8, 18, 88, 111. The comparison of the two necklaces leads the poet to anticipate Hygelāc's history,--a suggestion of the poem's mosaic construction. l. 1200. For Brōsinga mene, cf. B., _Beit._ xii. 72. C. suggests flēah, = _fled_, for fealh, placing semicolon after byrig, and making hē subject of flēah and gecēas. l. 1202. B. conjectures gecēas ēcne rǣd to mean _he became a pious man and at death went to heaven_. Heime (Hāma) in the _Thidrekssaga_ goes into a cloister = to choose the better part (?). Cf. H.-So., p. 98. But cf. Hrōðgār's language to Beowulf, ll. 1760, 1761. l. 1211. S. proposes feoh, = _property_, for feorh, which would be a parallel for brēost-gewǣdu ... bēah below. l. 1213. E. remarks that in the _Laws of Cnut_, i. 26, the devil is called se wōdfreca werewulf, _the ravening werwolf_. l. 1215. C. proposes heals-bēge onfēng. _Beit._ viii. 570. For hreā- Kl. suggests hrǣ-. l. 1227. The son referred to is, according to Ettmüller, the one that reigns after Hrōðgār. l. 1229. Kl. suggests sī, = _be_, for _is_. l. 1232. S. gives _wine-elated_ as the meaning of druncne.--_Beit._ ix. 139; Kl. _ibid._ 189, 194. But cf. _Judith_, ll. 67, 107. l. 1235. Cf. l. 119 for similarity of language. l. 1235. Kl. proposes gea-sceaft; but cf. l. 1267. l. 1246. Ring armor was common in the Middle Ages. E. points out the numerous forms of byrne in cognate languages,--Gothic, Icelandic, OHG., Slavonic, O. Irish, Romance, etc. Du Chaillu, _The Viking Age_, i. 126. Cf. Murray's _Dict._ s. v. l. 1248. ānwīg-gearwe = _ready for single combat_ (C.); but cf. Ha. p. 43; _Beit._ ix. 210, 282.