A similar phrase occurs in l. 432, p. 13. The phrase _stande awe_ is not uncommon in O.E. writers. "Than sal be herd the blast of bem, The demster sal com to dem, That al thing of _standes awe_." (_i. e._ stands _in_ awe of.) —(Met. Hom. p. xii.) "For Crist com sal be sa bright Þat thoru þat mikel lauerd might Him sal of _stand sa mikel au_, Þat alle þe filthes of his maugh Sal brist ute at his hindwin, For dred he sal haf of drightin." —(Antichrist and the Signs of the Doom, in _Jahrbuch für Romanische und Englische Literatur_, 1863, p. 203, l. 408.) "Thereof ne _stod him non owe_."—(Seven Sages, 1887.) See Havelok the Dane, p. 9, l. 277. 393 _on sundri_ = _asunder_ = apart, separate. 398 _And leded_ (ledeð) _samen gunker lif_. And lead (pass) together your (two) lives. _leded_ = _ledeð_, is a verb in the imperative mood; _gunker_, the A.S. _incer_ (_dual_) = your two, of you two. Cf. _ȝunkerr baþre_ = of you both.—(Orm. i. 214.) 408 _And sumdel quemeð it his seri mood_ And somewhat it cheereth his sorry mood. 411 _More for erneste dan [ðan] for gamen_, More for necessity than for pleasure. P. 13. l. 417 _al swilc sel_ = all such time. 420 _ðan he was of is broðer wold_, When he was by his brother killed. 421, 422 _An hundred ger after is dead, Adam fro eue in srifte abead._ A hundred years after his death, Adam from Eve in shrift (penance) abode. (_i. e._ on account of the death of Abel.) "A hundred winter of his liue fra þan forbar Adam his wiue, for soru of Abel þat was slayn."—(Cursor Mundi, fol. 8.) See Legends of the Holy Rood, pp. 20, 21. 431 _and wurð ut-lage_ = and became an outlaw. 432 _wið dead him stood hinke and age._ Of death he stood _in_ dread and fear. _hinke_ = _inke_, doubt, dread. See note on l. 392. 436 _ðeft and reflac ðhugte him no same_, theft and robbery appeared to him no shame. _Reflac_ = robbery with violence, rapine. (See Laȝ. i. 172, 272, 424; ii. 526.) "Þe first sin is o covatise Þat revis mani man þair praise, O þis cumes blindnes and tresun, _Reuelaic_, theft, extorsiun." —(The Seven Deadly Sins: _Cursor Mundi_, _Cott. MS. Vesp. A_ iii.) 438 _stonden agon_ = withstand, oppose. Cf. O.E. _again-stande_, to oppose. 439 _Met of corn, and wigte of fe_, Measure of corn, and weight of goods. The only objection against explaining _fe_ by goods or money is that in the poem it signifies cattle, the proper term for goods, etc., being _agte_. In Laȝamon _fe_, however, has the meaning of goods, money. 440 _And merke of felde, first fond he_, And he first devised division (boundary) of fields (lands). 444 _at ðe sexte kne_ = at the sixth degree. _Kne_ in this sense is used by Robert of Gloucester, p. 228:—"He come of Woden þe olde louerd, as in teþe kne" (_i. e._ tenth generation). 450 _On engleis tale_ = in English speech.