224. #scop . . . hire#, shaped for it: OE. #naman#, or #to naman scieppan#, with dat. of person or thing named, as ‘scōp him Heor[o]t naman,’ Beowulf, 78; 179/107 note. L has a weak past also, ‘ah scupte him nome,’ 1951. ‘Cest non Vancastre li a mis, | El langage de son païs. | Vancastre cest nom del quir prent, | Sel puet l’on nomer altrement | Chastel de coroie en romans, | Kaer Kaerai en bretans. | Or l’apèlent pluisor Lancastre | Qui ne savoient l’aqoison | Dont Vancastre ot premier cest non,’ W 7075-84. The traditional site is Tong in Kent: ‘Tong Castle or rather Thong Castle, in Saxon Þwangceastre, in British Caer Kerry . . . both whiche woordes signifie a Thong of leather,’ Lambarde, A Perambulation of Kent, ed. 1576, p. 195. But Camden in his Britannia, published in 1586, p. 306, places it in Lincolnshire, at Caster, six miles from Grimsby. L specializes in place-names; see his account of London, 7099, Hampton, 9376, Caen, 27923, Cernel, 29674. The formula in l. 227 occurs at 6062, 9380 &c. 228. #gome# is translated ‘adventure’ by Madden, rather, proceeding, tricky device. 230. #lane castel# and Wace’s ‘Lancastre’ can hardly be meant for Lancaster; they are possibly due to the Lincolnshire tradition. 232. #com# is practically an auxiliary verb: comp. ‘Leir wes cumen liðen,’ Lear had arrived, L 3626, 5379; ‘Þenne þu cumes faren ham,’ when thou dost fare home, id. 4398: similarly ‘gon forð liðe,’ 108/243, 245. 233. Read rideren: used vaguely for knights. 234. #comen# is probably an interpolation. #to iwiten#, that is to say: comp. ‘and forð he gon liðen[;] mid his Brutleoden. | þat is to iwitene[;] mid twa hundred scipene,’ L 30914. #æhtene#, ‘good,’ Madden; but the meaning wanted is, eighteen large ships; ‘Vinrent dix huit nés cargies | De chevaliers et de maisnies,’ W 7087; and so Madden corrects, iii. 487. Mätzner reads æhtetene, OE. #eahta tyne#, but ahtene occurs again C 18015, where O has ehtetene. 237. #umbe while#, after a (short) time: so ‘umbe stunde,’ L 26505; ‘umben ane stunde,’ id. 15924; ‘umben longne first,’ id. 287: O has usually the same variant as here, but ‘bi on lutel stunde,’ O 11969: see KH 333 note. 238. #mid#, among, ranking with: comp. ‘cniht mid þane beste,’ L 707, ‘swike mid þan meste,’ id. 2547; ‘hærm mid þon meste,’ id. 9806. 239. #bad# in C is OE. #bēad#, offered him hospitality; in O, OE. #bæd#, invited him to a banquet, as also in C 241. #gistninge#, entertainment; ME. gistnen, derivative of OE. #giest#, influenced by OWScand. gista: see Björkman, 152. 240. #to ȝeines him#, against his coming, to receive him: comp. ‘scipen he þer funde. | þat to-ȝenes him weoren ibonned,’ L 9731. Elsewhere in L the preposition is joined with a verb of motion. 241. #fæire underfon#: see 5/11 note. 245. #ꝥ#, until: see 72/179. 246. ‘Le castel et l’oevre agarda, | Mult fu bien fais, mult le loa,’ W 7103.