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Waldhere 61 was minded to send it to Widia himself and much costly treasure with that blade and much beside it deck with gold. Nithhad's kinsman, Widia, the son of Weland, received the reward that had long been due for rescuing him from cap tivity. Through the giants' domain Theodric hastened forth." Then spake Waldhere, in his hand he grasped his trenchant blade, a comfort in the fray the daring warrior, with defiant words : "Ha, friend of the Burgundians, didst thou deem in very truth that Hagena's hand had done battle with me and brought my days of combat to a close? Fetch, if thou darest, the grey corselet from me who am exhausted by the fray. Here it lies on my shoulders, even the heirloom of Aelfhere, good and broad-bossed and decked with gold, in every wise a glorious garment for a prince to wear, whose hand protects the treasure of his life against his foes. Never will it play me false, when faithless kinsmen return to the attack and beset me with their swords as ye have done. B 1O. gefeald, which does not occur elsewhere, should be emended to geweald ; cf. Beowulf, v. 903, on feonda geweald (Kluge). B 12. MS. hildefrore emended by Dietrich to hildet'rofre. Cosijn points out that frore for frofre is also fouiid in The Rule of St Benet, p. 10 1 (ed. Logeman, E.E.T.S. 1888). B 13. guSbdla gripe, abstract for concrete, " snijdend (tot den houw gereed) zwaard" [Cosijn], rather than " a gem of war-swords " (gripe = ON. gripr). B 14. wine Burgenda; cf. Atlakvi)>a, xix., vin Borgunda (emended to Borgunda hgllvin by Gering), see introduction, p. 41. B 19. geapneb has been translated "well-arched" and "crookednibbed " (B.T.), neither of which epithets is particularly appropriate to a corselet. On the other hand a mail-coat, found by Engelhardt (Denmark in the early Iron Age, p. 46, etc.) in the peat-mosses of Torsbjaerg and often figured since, was strengthened or decorated with breast-plates (phalerae) ; cf. the " zieischieben " of bronze in the museums of Kiel, Stettin, Hanover, etc., mentioned by Liudenschmit, Die Altertliilmer unserer heidnischen Vorzeit, in. vij. taf. 3. These phalerae were ultimately of Boman origin; cf. Dareuiberg-Saglio, Dictionnaire des Antiquites grecques et romaines, iv. 425, for examples from Crefeld and Mainz, especially the gravestone of M'. Caelius who fell with Varus, in 9 A.D. Is it impossible therefore that, as a shield with its boss is styled cellod lord, " the beaked shield," in Maldon, v. 283, so the epithet geapneb, " broad-bossed," should be applied to a mailcoat of this kind ? B 23. MS. pon un | m&gas with a lacuna of three or four letters at the end of the line, which Stephens filled by the insertion of yfle. Bugge (Tidskrijt, vni. 306) and Holthausen (Beowulf (3), 11. 173) declare that they can read pon off \ un m&gas, though ff is found only in ON. MSS., not else where in AS. Onga, the word they postulate, does occur in the sense of " sting," " point of an arrow" (Riddle xxiv. 4). They connect it with the
62 Waldhere 25 Deah mseg sige syllan se Se symle byS recon ond raedfest ryhta gehwilces, se Se him to Sam halgan helpan gelifeS, to Gode gioce, he fser gearo findeS, gif Sa earnunga ser geSenceS. 30 ponne moten wlance welan britnian sehtum wealdan, }>set is...." B 30. MS. mtoten. Frankish ayywv of Agathias, n. 5, and graves of the Merovingian period; cf. too the tridens of Waltharius, v. 983 ff. (Althof, W.P. n. 382). In this case msegas = msecgas, " warriors " (Diether, Anglia, xi. 106). It were better perhaps to keep the reading ponne unmsegas, which, if demanding a aira.% \ey6/j.e>>ov, does fit in with sense and metre. Unmmgas
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PREFACE TN preparing this edition I
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Preface most substantial kind from
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THE RUNIC POEMS CONTENTS PAGE INTRO
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THE RUNIC POEMS Building the Runic
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2 Introduction to survivor of such
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4 Introduction to score (principall
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6 Introduction to THE ANGLO-SAXON R
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8 Introduction alliteration, the th
Page 21 and 22: 10 Bibliography Of the Swedish insc
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Page 31 and 32: 20 The Anglo-Saxon Runic Poem 67 In
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Page 37 and 38: 26 The Norwegian Runic Poem 8 NauSr
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Page 41 and 42: 30 The Icelandic Runic Poem 7 Hagal
Page 43 and 44: 32 The Icelandic Runic Poem 14 MatJ
Page 45 and 46: Abecedarium Nordmannicum. APPENDIX
Page 48 and 49: INTRODUCTION WALDHERE In the year 1
Page 50 and 51: the Heroic Poems 39 After a formal
Page 52 and 53: the Heroic Poems 41 different. Cont
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Page 56 and 57: the Heroic Poems 45 at in Beowulf a
Page 58 and 59: the Heroic Poems 47 3. Orig. d beco
Page 60 and 61: the Heroic Poems 49 and in Asmundar
Page 62 and 63: Bibliography Miiller, W. Zur Mythol
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Page 68 and 69: WALDHERE A. Eagerly she (sc. Hildeg
Page 70 and 71: Woldhere 59 press home thy martial
Page 74 and 75: Waldhere 63 Yet victory can be give
Page 76 and 77: FINN Then cried the king young in w
Page 78 and 79: Finn 67 Then up rose many a knight
Page 80 and 81: Finn 69 shatter the horned helm. Th
Page 82 and 83: DEOK Weland, the steadfast warrior,
Page 84 and 85: Deor 73 evil days after Nithhad had
Page 86 and 87: Deor 75 Maethhild passed all bounds
Page 88 and 89: Deor 77 He who is anxious and distr
Page 90 and 91: HILDEBKAND I have heard it said tha
Page 92 and 93: Hildebrand 81 by, have told me that
Page 94 and 95: Hildebrand 83 Hadubrand, the son of
Page 96 and 97: Hildebrand 85 should refuse thee th
Page 98 and 99: General Bibliography ten Brink, B.
Page 100 and 101: General Bibliography Wright, T. and
Page 102 and 103: General Bibliography Fornmanna Sogu
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