Produced by Louise Hope, Taavi Kalju and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) [This e-text includes characters that require UTF-8 (Unicode) file encoding: œ : “oe” ligature Ȝȝ, ƿ, ſ, ǽ : yogh, wynn, long s, accented æ (only in notes) These characters, as well as a single Greek phrase, occur only in the notes, not in the poem itself. If any of the characters do not display properly, or if the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, make sure your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the default font. As a last resort, use the Latin-1 version of the file instead. The original book (EETS E.S. 4, 1868, ed. Skeat) exists in at least two forms. See Errata section at the end of the e-text for details. In the main text, footnotes are grouped at the end of text sections. Most headnotes have similarly been moved to the nearest break in the text. Sidenotes keep their original starting point, but are collected into full sentences. _Typography:_ Large initial capitals are shown with a single leading + to avoid “breaking” the text: +Herknet to me, gode men Wiues, maydnes, and alle men ... Italicized letters representing expanded contractions are shown in br{ac}es. All other italics are shown conventionally with _lines_; this includes italicized _w_, used by the editor for wynn ƿ. If you find the braces distracting you may delete them globally; they are not used for any other purpose. A few French passages in the Preface use a trailing tilde ~, as in the word “q~”. In the original, the ~ was attached to the preceding letter, but not directly above it. Superscript letters are shown with a caret ^. Square brackets are in the original except those in standard formulas such as [Footnote] or [Transcriber’s Note].] THE LAY OF HAVELOK THE DANE. Early English Text Society. Extra Series. No. IV. 1868. Dublin: William McGee, 18, Nassau Street. Edinburgh: T. G. Stevenson, 22, South Frederick Street. Glasgow: Ogle & Co., 1, Royal Exchange Square. Berlin: Asher & Co., Unter den Linden, 20. New York: C. Scribner & Co.; Leypoldt & Holt. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. Boston, U.S.: Dutton & Co. +The Lay of+ +HAVELOK THE DANE:+ Composed in the Reign of Edward I, about A.D. 1280. Formerly Edited by Sir F. Madden for the Roxburghe Club, And now Re-Edited from the Unique Ms. Laud Misc. 108, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; by the REV. WALTER W. SKEAT, M.A., Author of “A Mœso-Gothic Glossary,” Editor of “Piers Plowman,” “William of Palerne,” &c. [Illustration: Seal of Great Grimsby] LONDON: Published For The Early English Text Society, By N. Trübner & Co., 60, Paternoster Row. MDCCCLXVIII. +Extra Series,+ IV.