[52]This word signifies men who fought without a breastplate, perhaps in shirts only; Scottice, "Baresarks."—Tr.
[53]See the "Life of Sweyn," of Hereward, etc., even up to the time of the Conquest.
[54]Beowulf, passim. Death of Byrhtnoth.
[55]"The Wanderer, the Exile's Song, Codex Exoniensis," published by Thorpe.
[56]Turner, "History of the Anglo-saxons", III. 63.
[57]Alfred borrows his portrait from Boethius, but almost entirely rewrites it.
[58]Kemble thinks that the origin of this poem is very ancient, perhaps contemporary with the invasion of the Angles and Saxons, but that the version we possess is later than the seventh century.—Kemble's "Beowulf," text and translation, 1833. The characters are Danish.
[59]Kemble's "Beowulf," XI. p. 32.
[60]Ibid. XII. p. 34.
[61]"Beowulf," XXII., XXIII. p. 62 et passim.