[468] Cf. Tacitus, Germania, XIV.

[469] For examples of this see pp. [278]-82 below.

[470] Fragment, 40-1.

[471] See above, p. [30].

[472] Book II (ed. Holder, p. 67).

[473] P.B.B. XII, 34.

[474] For a discussion of the interpretation of the difficult forþringan, see Carlton Brown in M.L.N. XXXIV, 181-3.

[475] J.E.G.Ph. XVI, 291-2.

[476] Ib. 293-4.

[477] I wish I could feel convinced, with Ayres, that the person whom Guthlaf and Oslaf blame for their woes is Hengest rather than Finn. Such an interpretation renders the story so much more coherent; but if the poet really meant this, he assuredly did not make his meaning quite clear.