l. 12. ġeworhte. Gr. [46]. (3).
l. 16. hiera. Gr. [41]. 3.
nǣfre ... ne ... nānes. Gr. [52]. 2. ne wæs is usually contracted into næs; the full form is used here because the wæs is emphatic.
l. 17. hēt ofslēan. Gr. [50]. 4.
l. 23. Æþelred cyning. Gr. [42]. 6.
l. 24. Æsces-dūn, sf. Ashdown, literally 'hill (or down) of the ashtree.'
l. 27. wile here denotes repetition, = 'is in the habit of.' Cp. l. 52.
l. 28. þonne is correlative with gif (l. 26), Gr. [52]. 3.
l. 37. ælmihtiga. Gr. [43]. (4).
l. 43. ēower se heofonlica Fæder. This insertion of the definite article between a possessive pronoun and an adjective is frequent.