and feminine rime, e.g., _To deþe he hem alle broȝte, His fader deþ wel dere hi boȝte_, 951-2 C (but cf. #L# and #H#, which have more normal forms). While nearly all the verses may be made to fit into one of the types mentioned above, there are some which do not fit naturally into any one of the new types, but which seems rather to be a stereotyped form handed down from OE. tradition; e.g., _Bi þe se side_ (OE. #C# type) 35, _of alle wymmanne_ (OE. C type) 71, _Wringinde here honde_ (OE. E type) 118, _Bi þe se brinke_ 151, _In to a galeie_ 199, _He was þe faireste_ 187 C. (OE. #C# types). (Cf. L which tries to make this verse fit better into the new versification, _For þat he was fayrest_), _We ben of sodenne_ 189 L, _Of Cristene blode_ (OE. type E) 191 C. _And þi fairnesse_ 227 C. _þoru out westnesse_ 228 L (MS. C adapts the verse by changing the _westnesse_ of L. H. to _West{er}nesse_). Compound proper names seem to have been a source of confusion. Should both[I-12] elements of the name receive stress, primary and secondary, as in OE., or should only one? Notice the struggles of the scribes with verse 169: _Hy metten wiþ almair king_ C, _Metten he with aylmer king_ L, _metten hue Eylmer, þe kyng_ H. Also 257. _Ailbrus gan lere_ C, _And aylbrous gan leren_ L, _Aþelbrus gon leren_ H. On the whole the scribes have been fairly successful in making the native material fit into the new forms, but not unfrequently may be detected traces of the rhythm of the native OE. types, especially of the C type. [Footnote I-12: The rimes throughout indicate that the second syllables in compound words and the more important suffixes still bore an accent. Cf. 169-70, 199-200, 209-10, 219-20, 1353-4, etc.] § 7. DIALECT. In what dialect King Horn was originally composed, it is not easy to determine. This is a particularly difficult matter because the real pronunciation is disguised behind a great diversity of written forms. Under the circumstances the only safe guide is to be found in the rimes. Even these are very unsatisfactory since they are too few to permit any safe generalizations. For instance, it is impossible to apply satisfactorily Prof. Hempl’s -wǭ-, -wō- test (cf. _Journ. of Germ. Phil._ I, pp. 14-30). In a similar way it is impossible to apply Pogatscher’s ingenious test by means of the shortened product of WG. _ā_, WS. _ǣ_ (cf. _Anglia_, xxiii, pp. 301 ff.) because of want of rime material. Another difficulty in using the rime-test is the double pronunciation indicated, notably in the case of WS. -eald-, éa- as the result of contraction (_e.g._ WS. _sléan_), and of words with initial palatal ȝ- (_e.g._, WS. _geong_). Cf. examples below.