Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn

by R. W. Chambers

[208] Those who accept the identification would regard Fróði (O.E. Frōda, 'the wise') as a title which has ousted the proper name.

[209] Boer, Ark. f. nord. filol., XIX, 67, calls this theory of Sievers "indisputable."

[210] Sievers, p. 181.

[211] Beowulf, 2405. Cf. 2215, 2281.

[212] So Regin guides Sigurd: Una the Red Cross Knight. The list might be indefinitely extended. Similarly with giants: "Then came to him a husbandman of the country, and told him how there was in the country of Constantine, beside Brittany, a great giant".... Morte d'Arthur, Book V, cap. V.

[213] Beowulf, 895.

[214] l. 2338.

[215] ll. 2570 etc.

[216] intrepidum mentis habitum retinere memento.

[217] ll. 2663 etc.