The fattest deer of all.
The heart he cleft a-two.
6.
6.1 ‘i-flaw’ = flayed. Cp. ‘slaw,’ 16.3.
He had not the deer i-flaw
Ne half out of the hide,
There came a shrewd arrow out of the west
That felled Robert’s pride.
7.
Gandeleyn looked him east and west,