715-720. _Hauelok the yunge_, &c. Comp. the Fr. ll. 97-105. Quant sa nief fut apparaillée, Dedenz fist entrer sa meisnée, Ses cheualers & ses serganz, Sa femme demeine & ses enfanz: La reyne mist el batel, Haueloc tint souz son mantel. Il meismes apres entra, A Dieu del ciel se comanda, Del hauene sont desancré, Car il eurent bon orré. Instead of the storm, in the French text Grim’s ship is attacked by pirates, who kill the whole of the crew, with the exception of himself and family, whom they spare on the score of his being an old acquaintance. 733-749. _In Humber_, &c. So in the Fr. _Ceo fut el north_, &c. Cf. ll. 122-135. Tant out nagé & tant siglé, Q’en vne hauene out parvenu, Et de la nief a terre issu. Ceo fut el North, a Grimesbi; A icel tens qe ieo vus di, Ni out onques home habité, Ne cele hauene n’ert pas haunté. Il i adresca primes maison, De lui ad Grimesbi a non. Quant Grim primes i ariua, En .ii. moitez sa nief trencha, Les chiefs en ad amont drescé, Iloec dedenz s’est herbergé. Pescher aloit sicome il soloit, Siel vendoit & achatoit. 753. _He took the sturgiun and the qual, And the turbut, and lax withal, He tok the sele, and the hwel_, &c. The list of fish here enumerated may be increased from l. 896, and presents us with a sufficiently accurate notion of the different species eaten in the 13th century. Each of the names will be considered separately in the Glossary, and it is only intended here to make a few remarks on those, which in the present day appear rather strangely to have found a place on the tables of our ancestors. The sturgeon is well known to have been esteemed a dainty, both in England and France, and specially appropriated to the King’s service, but that the whale, the seal, and the porpoise should have been rendered palatable, excites our astonishment. Yet that the whale was caught for that purpose, appears not only from the present passage, but also from the Fabliau intitled _Bataille de Charnage et de Caresme_, written probably about the same period, and printed by Barbazan. It is confirmed, as we learn from Le Grand, by the French writers; and even Rabelais, near three centuries later, enumerates the whale among the dishes eaten by the Gastrolatres. In the list of fish also published by Le Grand from a MS. of the 13th century, and which corresponds remarkably with the names in the Romance, we meet with the _Baleigne_. See _Vie Privée des François_, T. II. sect. 8.