l. 2707. Kl. proposes: feorh ealne wræc, = _drove out all the life_; cf. _Gen._ l. 1385.--_Beit._ ix. 192. S. suggests gefylde,--_he felled the foe_, etc.--_Ibid._ Parentheses seem unnecessary. l. 2727. dæg-hwīl = _time allotted, lifetime_. l. 2745, 2745. Ho. removes geong from the beginning of l. 2745 and places it at the end of l. 2744. l. 2750. R. proposes sigle searogimmas, as at l. 1158. l. 2767. (1) B. proposes doubtfully oferhīgean or oferhīgan, = Goth, _ufarhauhjan_, p. p. _ufarhauhids_ (Gr. τυφωθείς) = _exceed in value_.--_Tidskr._ viii. 60. (2) Kl. proposes oferhȳdian, = _to make arrogant, infatuate_; cf. oferhȳd.--_Beit._ ix. 192. l. 2770. gelocen leoðocræftum = (1) _spell-bound_ (Th., Arnold, E.); (2) _wrought with hand-craft_ (G.); (3) _meshed, linked together_ (H., Ho.); cf. _Elene_, ll. 1251, 522. l. 2778. B. considers bill ... ealdhlāfordes as Beowulf's short sword, with which he killed the dragon, l. 2704 (_Tidskr._ viii. 299). R. proposes ealdhlāforde. Müllenh. understands ealdhlāford to mean the former possessor of the hoard. W. agrees to this, but conceives ǣrgescōd as a compd. = ǣre calceatus, _sheathed in brass_. Ha. translates ǣrgescōd as vb. and adv. l. 2791. Cf. l. 224, eoletes æt ende; landes æt ende, _Exod._ (Hunt). l. 2792. MS. reads wæteres weorpan, which R. would change to wætere sweorfan. l. 2806. "Men saw from its height the whales tumbling in the waves, and called it Whale's Ness (Hrones-nǣs)."--Br. p. 28. Cf. l. 3137. l. 2815. Wīglāf was the next of kin, the last of the race, and hence the recipient of Beowulf's kingly insignia. There is a possible play on the word lāf (Wīg-_lāf_, ende-_lāf_). l. 2818. gingeste word; cf. _novissima verba_, and Ger. _jüngst_, lately. l. 2837. E. translates on lande, _in the world_, comparing _on līfe, on worulde_. l. 2840. gerǣsde = pret. of gerǣsan (omitted from the Gloss.), same as rǣsan; cf. l. 2691. l. 2859. B. proposes dēað ārǣdan, = _determine death_.--_Beit._ xii. 106. l. 2861. Change geongum to geongan as a scribal error (?), but cf. Lichtenheld, _Haupts Zeitschr._ xvi. 353-355. l. 2871. S. and W. propose ōwēr.--_Beit._ ix. 142. l. 2873. S. punctuates: wrāðe forwurpe, þā, etc. l. 2874. H.-So. begins a new sentence with nealles, ending the preceding one with beget. l. 2879. ætgifan = _to render, to afford_; omitted in Gloss. ll. 2885-2892. "This passage ... equals the passage in Tacitus which describes the tie of chief to companion and companion to chief among the Germans, and which recounts the shame that fell on those who survived their lord."--Br., p. 56. l. 2886. cyn thus has the meaning of _gens_ or clan, just as in many Oriental towns all are of one blood. E. compares Tacitus, _Germania_, 7; and cf. "kith and kin." l. 2892. Death is preferable to dishonor. Cf. Kemble, _Saxons_, i. 235. l. 2901. The ἄγγελος begins his ἀγγελία here.