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 <strong>of</strong> 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 <strong>of</strong> the Burgundians, didst thou deem in very truth that Hagena's hand had done battle with me and brought my days <strong>of</strong> 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 <strong>of</strong> 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 <strong>of</strong> 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'r<strong>of</strong>re. Cosijn points out that frore for fr<strong>of</strong>re is also fouiid in The Rule <strong>of</strong> 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 <strong>of</strong> 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 <strong>of</strong> 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 <strong>of</strong> Torsbjaerg and <strong>of</strong>ten figured since, was strengthened or decorated with breast-plates (phalerae) ; cf. the " zieischieben " <strong>of</strong> bronze in the museums <strong>of</strong> Kiel, Stettin, Hanover, etc., mentioned by Liudenschmit, Die Altertliilmer unserer heidnischen Vorzeit, in. vij. taf. 3. These phalerae were ultimately <strong>of</strong> Boman origin; cf. Dareuiberg-Saglio, Dictionnaire des Antiquites grecques et romaines, iv. 425, for examples from Crefeld and Mainz, especially the gravestone <strong>of</strong> 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 <strong>of</strong> this kind ? B 23. MS. pon un | m&gas with a lacuna <strong>of</strong> three or four letters at the end <strong>of</strong> the line, which Stephens filled by the insertion <strong>of</strong> yfle. Bugge (Tidskrijt, vni. 306) and Holthausen (Beowulf (3), 11. 173) declare that they can read pon <strong>of</strong>f \ 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 <strong>of</strong> " sting," " point <strong>of</strong> 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 <strong>of</strong> Agathias, n. 5, and graves <strong>of</strong> the Merovingian period; cf. too the tridens <strong>of</strong> Waltharius, v. 983 ff. (Alth<strong>of</strong>, 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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