l. 2380. hyne--Heardrēd; so him, l. 2358. l. 2384. E. calls attention to Swīo-rīce as identical with the modern _Sverige_ = Sweden; cf. l. 2496. l. 2386. Gr. reads on feorme, = _at the banquet_; cf. Möller, _Alteng. Volksepos_, 111, who reads (f)or feorme. The MS. has or. l. 2391. Cf. l. 11. l. 2394. B., Gr., and Mūllenh. understand ll. 2393-2397 to mean that Ēadgils, Ōhthere's son, driven from Sweden, returns later, supported by Beowulf, takes the life of his uncle Onela, and probably becomes himself O.'s successor and king of Sweden. For another view see H.-So., p. 115. MS. has freond (l. 2394), which Leo, etc., change to fēond. G. translates _friend_.--_Beit._ xii. 13; _Anzeiger f. d. Altert._ iii. 177. l. 2395. Ēadgils is Ōhthere's son; cf. l. 2381; Onela is Ōhthere's brother; cf. ll. 2933, 2617. l. 2402. "Twelfsome"; cf. "fifteensome" at l. 207, etc. As _Bēowulf_ is essentially _the_ Epic of Philanthropy, of the true love of man, as distinguished from the ordinary love-epic, the number twelve in this passage may be reminiscent of another Friend of Man and another Twelve. In each case all but one desert the hero. l. 2437. R. proposes stȳred, = _ordered, decreed_, for strēd.--_Zachers Zeitschr._ iii. 409. l. 2439. B. corrects to frēo-wine = _noble friend_, asking, "How can Herebeald be called Hæðcyn's frēa-wine [MS.], _lord?_" l. 2442. feohlēas gefeoht, "a homicide which cannot be atoned for by money--in this case an unintentional fratricide."--Sw. l. 2445. See Ha., pp. 82, 83, for a discussion of ll. 2445-2463. Cf. G., p. 75. l. 2447. MS. reads wrece, justified by B. (_Tidskr._ viii. 56). W. conceives wrece as optative or hortative, and places a colon before þonne. l. 2449. For helpan read helpe.--K., Th., S. (_Zeitschr. f. D. Phil._ xxi. 3, 357). ll. 2454-2455. (1) Müllenh. (_Haupts Zeitschr._ xiv. 232) proposes: þonne se ān hafað þurh dǣda nȳd dēaðes gefandod. (2) B. proposes: þurh dǣda nīð dēaðes gefondad. --_Zachers Zeitschr._ iv. 215. l. 2458. Cf. scēotend, pl., ll. 704, 1155, like rīdend. Cf. _Judith_, l. 305, etc. l. 2474. Th. considers the "wide water" here as the Mälar lake, the boundary between Swedes and Goths. l. 2477. On oþþe = _and_, cf. B., _Tidskr._ viii. 57. See Ha., p. 83. l. 2489. B. proposes hrēa-blāc for Gr.'s heoro-.--_Tikskr._ viii. 297. l. 2494. S. suggests ēðel-wynne. l. 2502. E. translates for dugeðum, _of my prowess_; so Ettmüller. ll. 2520-2522. Gr. and S. translate, "if I knew how else I might combat the monster's boastfulness."--Ha., p. 85. l. 2524. and-hāttres is H.'s invention. Gr. reads oreðes and attres, _blast and venom_. Cf. oruð, l. 2558, and l. 2840 (where attor- also occurs). l. 2526. E. quotes flēon fōtes trym from _Maldon_, l. 247. l. 2546. Gr., H.-So., and Ho. read standan stān-bogan (for stōd on stān-bogan) depending on geseah. l. 2550. Grundt. and B. propose dēor, _brave one_, i.e. Beowulf, for dēop.