of the deceit that has been practiced in connection with the dead dragon, the king is compelled, if he believes what he has said about Gullinhjalti, to recognize that Hott has demonstrated by his ability to wield the sword that he is now "a man who is both brave and daring." And the king does recognize it, for he says to Bothvar, "You have made a warrior out of Hott."] [Footnote 82: _Hrs. Bjark._, p. 100.] [Footnote 83: Ll. 1557, 1567, 1607, 1666.] [Footnote 84: Ll. 1558, 1569, 1605, 1615, 1663, 1696.] [Footnote 85: Ll. 1559, 1573.] [Footnote 86: Ll. 1564, 1616, 1667.] [Footnote 87: L. 1697.] [Footnote 88: _Eng. Stud._, XXXV, p. 22.] [Footnote 89: L. 1697.] [Footnote 90: Ll. 1573-74.] [Footnote 91: "The chief of the Weder-Geats took no more of the treasure-holdings in the dwelling, though he saw many there, but only the head, and with it, the sword's hilt, brave with gold; the sword had already melted" (ll. 1612-15).--_Beow._, Child.] [Footnote 92: "I bore the hilt thence away from my enemies" (ll. 1668-69).] [Footnote 93: "Then the golden hilt, the work of giants long ago, was given into the hand of the old prince, the white-haired battle-leader" (ll. 1677-79).--_Beow._, Child.] [Footnote 94: "Hrothgar spake, looked on the hilt, the old heirloom, on which was written the beginning of that far-off strife, when the flood, the streaming ocean slew the giant kind--they had borne themselves lawlessly. The people were estranged from the Eternal Lord; the Wielder, therefore, gave them their requital through the whelming of the waters. So was it duly lined in rimed staves on the guard of gleaming gold, set down and told for them for whom that sword was wrought, choicest of blades, with twisted hilt and decked with dragon-shapes." (LI. 1687-93).--_Beow._, Child.] [Footnote 95: L. 1687.] [Footnote 96: L. 1698.] [Footnote 97: "He gave the guardian of the boat a sword ornamented with gold" (ll. 1900-1901).] [Footnote 98: "Then the shield of earls, the king stout in battle, bade fetch Hrethel's sword, mounted in gold; there was not then among the Geats a better treasure in the like of a sword. He laid it on Beowulf's lap." (ll. 2190-94).--_Beow._, Child.] [Footnote 99: _Mort. d'Arth._, p. 480.] [Footnote 100: "En l'orie pont assez i at reliques."--_Ext. Ch. Rol._, p. 103.] [Footnote 101: "Preditum auro capulum."--_Gest. Dan._, p. 118.] [Footnote 102: See pp. 31 ff.] [Footnote 103: _St. germ. Sag._, p. 370.] [Footnote 104: _St. germ. Sag._, p. 372.] [Footnote 105: _Eng. Nov._, p. 2.] [Footnote 106: _Hrs. Bjark._, pp. 139-40 and 141-42. Lawrence's translation of the above selections from the _rímur_ is as follows:--