The Saxons in England, Volume 1 (of 2) / A history of the English commonwealth till the period of the Norman conquest

by John Mitchell Kemble

[738]. Ibid. l. 2411.

[739]. Ibid. l. 2240.

[740]. Ibid. l. 2154.

[741]. Ibid. l. 2872.

[742]. Ibid. l. 4234, 4468.

[743]. Ibid. l. 4836.

[744]. Ibid. l. 5453.

[745]. Ibid. l. 5048.

[746]. This is a most remarkable passage, for Wyrd is distinctly called Metod, a word generally appropriated to God; but I am disposed to think that Metten, another word for Fate, was uppermost in the poet’s mind,—perhaps found in some heathen copy of the poem. “Ða gráman mettena,” saevae parcae. Boet. p. 161. (Rawl.)

[747]. Beów. l. 5145.