l. 39. bilewīt = *bile-hwīt (with the regular change of hw into w between vowels) literally 'white (=tender) of bill,' originally, no doubt, applied to young birds, and then used metaphorically in the sense of 'gentle,' 'simple.'
l. 70. worhte flēames. This construction of wyrcan with a genitive is frequent.
l. 76. wǣre, subj. Gr. [48]. (6).
l. 85. fūse. The correct reading is probably fūsne, but the plural fūse may be taken to refer to Hinguar and his men collectively.
l. 149. ġebedhūs. The Welsh bettws, as in Bettws-y-coed = 'chapel in the wood,' still preserves the O. E. form nearly unchanged.
l. 176. swā þæt does not denote result here, but is explanatory—'namely by being bound....'
l. 178. hīe, reflexive.
l. 179. þæs ... hū, correlative.
l. 185. The reference is apparently to Proverbs xxiv. 11, which (in the Vulgate) runs thus: 'Erue eos qui ducuntur ad mortem.'
l. 200. hwæþer, (that he might see) whether ...