249. Layamon’s delight in descriptions of feasts and music is in strong contrast to Wace’s prosaic manner. The present passage may be compared with L 3634, 5107, 14946. Mätzner would read gomen-men, musicians, or gleomen, with change of cleopien into gleowien, but #gomen# means games, a regular accompaniment of the feast (see KH 478 note), and #cleopien# proclaim, as in ‘Lette þe king gan awal[;] ⁊ lude clepien ouer al,’ L 3644. 250. #hetten#, ordered; perhaps a mistake for letten, as L has generally hehten in this sense. With #breden# comp. ‘bordes heo brædden,’ L 18523, where O has ‘bordes hii leide{n}’: it means, to cover with cloth and viands. 251. #dræm# &c.: comp. 102/146; ‘blisse wes on folke,’ L 5108, ‘blisse wes on hirede,’ id. 14947. 252. #þa--iloten#, then had the better fallen to their lot; lucky men were they! OE. #gehlēotan#, to share by lot. 253-268. In L 14956-81 Ronwen again appears as cupbearer. 254. #vnimete prude#, boundless splendour: OE. #prȳto#, influenced in this meaning by OWScand. prýþi, ornament. 255. #al ꝥ scrud#, all the clothing; _sing._, the _pl._ is ‘alle þa scrud,’ L 10180: the number changes in #heo weoren#. #ibon#, prepared, adorned: comp. ‘wel wes he ibon,’ L 12805, in O alle wel idiht; ‘þas scipen ibone,’ id. 32037. It is an East Scand. _pp._ bōin, as buen is West Scand. búinn: ‘iboned,’ L 8086, with same meaning is _pp._ of the derivative *ibonen parallel with bounen, derivative of buen. See Björkman, 206. 256. #ibrusted#, made bristly, rough: comp. ‘alle þai mete-burdes[;] ibrusted (ibrustled O) mid golde,’ L 24667; ‘vestes auroque ostroque rigentes,’ Virg. Æn., xi. 72. 261. #sæt#, went down on: comp. ‘þa hie for þam cumble on cneowum sæton,’ Grein, ii. 484/180: see KH 781 note. 263. #wæs hæil# is OWScand. væs heill, be well, good health to you! In ‘Lavert King wes hel tant li dist,’ W 7115, the forms are English: comp. ‘Wes þu, Hroðgar, hal!’ Beowulf, 407. #for--uæin#: see 94/24: O means, for thy coming is wholesome to me; for #comes#, plural with meaning of singular, comp. ‘hwanan eowre cyme syndon,’ Beowulf, 257; ‘hwonan his cyme sindon,’ Grein, iii. 89/1196; and for the usual expression, 94/24 note. 266. See 102/159. #weoren#, might be. 267. #Keredic#: ‘Redic li respondi premiers, | Brez ert, si fu bons latiniers; | Ce fu li premiers des Bretons | Qui sot le langaige as Sessons,’ W 7119. The name, Cerdic, Ceredic, Cerdicelmet, is in Nennius, ed. Petrie, ch. xxxvii. #sellic#, marvellous, gifted. 268. #ær# is probably a scribe’s mistake for æuer, due to #her# following. 271. #tiðende#, _pl._ practice: see 96/35; and for Hit with beoð _pl._ 1/10, 94/7. ‘Costume est, sire, en son païs,’ W 7127. 272. #gladieð of drenche#, find enjoyment in drinking: of with the adj. is common, with the verb rare: comp. 126/310.