#Accidence.# The #ā# and #jā# stems add e in the _nom._, blisse 3/8, bote 3/11, seoruwe 3/8, sowle 2/28, soule 3/45, modinesse 3/4, _accusatives_ are hwule 3/1, lore 4/29, soule 2/9, sunne 4/22, Godnesse 3/3. The _g._ of strong nouns ends in -es, the _d._ in -e, the _pl. n. a._ of Masculines in -es; of Feminines in -e; Neuters as ban 2/21 are uninflected, _pl. g._ has -e, _d._, -en, as honden 3/38. Markes 3/6, pundes 3/5 have adopted masc. endings; honden 3/39, isceæftan 2/2, goldfæten 3/7 have joined the weak declension. Of the latter dædan 3/42, weolan 4/32 are _g._, heouene 4/28 (_nom. s._ heouene F 38 (OE. #heofone#), molde 3/34, _d._, and exceptionally willæn 4/33, an archaic form preserved by its phrasal character; _a._ is deade 3/40; æren, eiȝen 2/17, lippen 2/18, are _pl. n._, weolen 4/16, _d._, eȝen 3/42 _a._ The predicative adjective often shows strong declension, as grædie 3/13, fuse 4/15, ikunde 3/32; but heui 2/15, leas, lutiȝ 3/2, loþ 4/37, &c., and the adjs. in #ig# are not inflected. Inflected attributives are deope 4/40, _s. d. m._, muchele 2/23, _s. d. f._; durelease 4/40, _s. d. neut._; seoruhfulne 4/19, _s. a. m._; alle 4/37, _pl. d. m._, &c. The termination of the weak declension is -e in all cases, as seoruhfule 2/8, _s. a. m._; reade 4/27, _s. d. neut._; dimme 3/42, _pl. a. neut._ The pronoun of the third person has _pl. d._ ham, heom. The def. art. is _s. n._ þe- þeo- þat, _d. m._ þen, _a._ þene- þeo- þat, _pl. n._ þeo- þa -þa, þeo, þe. The relative is _s._ þet, _s._ and _pl._ þe, þeo, _pl._ only þa. The terminations of the verb are _inf._ -en (but driæn, offrian); _ind. pr._, e -est (contr. list 4/38), -eþ (but cumaþ 3/44, mænet 2/6); contr. sæiþ 2/13, biþ 2/22, met 3/33, liþ 3/36; _pl._ -eþ. Come 3/11 is 2 _pr. s. subj._ _Ind. pt._ of weak verbs, _s._ -de, -dest (but lufedæst 3/4), -de; _part. pt._ -ed, d, t in ibrouht 4/39, _part. pr._ -inde, ende. Strong pasts are ȝeat 4/27, beden 3/11, 4/21, seten 3/10; _part. pt._; iboren 2/6, &c. #Dialect:# The Dialect is Southern, outside the Kentish area, and probably Middle South, with forms deriving from a Saxon patois. The poem may have been written, as the preceding piece probably was, in or near Winchester. The orthography belongs to two distinct stages of development, the later showing the copyist’s practice towards the end of the twelfth century, the more primitive being that of the original, which may have been fifty or sixty years earlier. The phonetic position of the scribe is in some respects more advanced than that of the Layamon MS. A.