L. 2565. MS. has ungleaw (K., Th.), unglaw (Grundt.). B. proposes unslāw, = _sharp_.--_Beit._ xii. 104. So H.-So., Ha., p. 86. ll. 2570, 2571. (1) May not gescīfe (MS. to gscipe) = German _schief_, "crooked," "bent," "aslant," and hence be a parallel to gebogen, _bent, coiled?_ cf. l. 2568, þā se wyrm gebēah snūde tōsomne, and l. 2828. Coiled serpents spring more powerfully for the coiling. (2) Or perhaps destroy comma after tō and read gescæpe, = _his fate_; cf. l. 26: him þā Scyld gewāt tō gescæp-hwīle. G. appar. adopts this reading, p. 78. l. 2589. grund-wong = _the field_, not _the earth_ (so B.); H.-So., _cave_, as at l. 2771. So Ha., p. 87. l. 2595. S. proposes colon after stefne.--_Beit._ ix. 141. l. 2604. Müllenh. explains lēod Scylfinga in _Anzeiger f. d. Altert._ iii. 176-178. l. 2607. āre = _possessions, holding_ (Kl., _Beit._ ix. 192; Ha., p. 88). l. 2609. folcrihta. Add "folk-right" to the meanings in the Gloss.; and cf. ēðel-, land-riht, word-riht. l. 2614. H.-So. reads with Gr. wrǣccan winelēasum Wēohstān bana, = _whom, a friendless exile, W. had slain_. ll. 2635-61. E. quotes Tacitus, _Germania_, xiv.: "turpe comitatui virtutem principis non adaequare." Beowulf had been deserted by his _comitatus_. l. 2643. B. proposes ūser.--_Zachers Zeitschr._ iv. 216. l. 2649. wutun; l. 3102, uton = pres. subj. pl. 1st person of wītan, _to go_, used like Mod. Eng. _let us_ + inf., Lat. _eamus_, Ital. _andiamo_, Fr. _allons_; M. E. (_Layamon_) _uten_. Cf. Psa. ii. 3, etc. March, _A.-S. Gram._, pp. 104, 196. l. 2650. B. suggests hāt for hyt,.--_Beit._ xii. 105. l. 2656. fāne = fāh-ne; cf. fāra = fāh-ra, l. 578; so hēanne (MS.) = hēah-ne, etc., l. 984. See Cook's Sievers' Gram. ll. 2660, 2661. Why not read beadu-scrūd, as at l. 453, = _battle-shirt?_ B. and R. suppose two half-verses omitted between byrdu-scrūd and bām gemǣne. B. reads bȳwdu, = _handsome_, etc. Gr. suggests unc nū, = _to us two now_, for ūrum; and K. and Grundt. read bēon gemǣne for bām, etc. This makes sense. Cf. Ha., p. 89. l. 2666. Cf. the dat. absolute without preposition. l. 2681. Nægling; cf. Hrunting, Lāfing, and other famous wundor-smiða geweorc of the poem. l. 2687. B. changes þonne into þone (rel. pro.) = _which_.--_Beit._ xii. 105. l. 2688. B. supports the MS. reading, wundum. l. 2688. Cf. l. 2278 for similar language. l. 2698. B. (_Beit._ xii. 105) renders: "he did not heed the head of the dragon (which Beowulf with his sword had struck without effect), but he struck the dragon somewhat further down." Cf. Saxo, vi. p. 272. l. 2698. Cf. the language used at ll. 446 and 1373, where hafelan also occurs; and hȳdan. l. 2700. hwēne; cf. Lowl. Sc. _wheen_, a number; Chaucer's _woon_, number. l. 2702. S. proposes þā (for þæt) þæt fȳr, etc., = _when the fire began_, etc. l. 2704. "The (hup)-seax has often been found in Saxon graves on the hip of the skeleton."--E.