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,