in Lincoln
Cathedral Library. The footnotes explain all words save those that are or
ought to be familiar to every reader.
[1] l. 1. _endris_, last.
[2] l. 6. _meaned_, moaned.
[3] l. 7. _bered_, sounded. The woodwale is some kind of wood-bird.
[4] l. 14. _wrable and ivry_, ? wriggle and twist, _i.e._ in the attempt to
describe her.
[5] l. 17. See p. 54.
[6] _Swilk_, such.
[7] l. 21. _roelle-bone;_ a commonplace in early poetry, as the material
for saddles; meaning unknown.
[8] l. 24. _crapotee_, toad-stone.
[9] l. 32. _overbegone_, overlaid.
[10] l. 33. _paytrell_ = poitrail, breast-leather of a horse; _iral_ (?).
[11] l. 34. _orphare_ = orferrie, goldsmith's work.
[12] l. 38. _raches_, dogs.
[13] l. 39. _halse_, neck.
[14] l. 40. _flane_, arrow.
[15] l. 43. See pp. 46-7 and note.
[16] l. 45. _But-if,_ unless.
[17] l. 48. For an elaborate investigation of the circumstances concerning
the _Eildon tree_, see the special section in Murray's edition.
[18] l. 49. _rathely_, quickly.
[19] l. 63. _fee_, beasts, cattle.
[20] l. 71. _sekerly_, truly.
[21] l. 79. _ware_, worse.
[22] l. 86. _byrde_, bride.
[23] l. 89. _stead_, place.
[24] l. 98. _duleful_, painful.
[25] l. 103. _gone_ = go (old infinitive).
[26] l. 104. _Middle-earth_ = Earth, the middle region in the old Northern
cosmogony.
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