[720] Walter, Corpus juris Germanici antiqui, 1824, II, 125.

[721] Heimskringla, Haraldz saga, cap. 38-40.

[722] "The idea of a gold hoard undoubtedly points to the earlier version of the Beowulf poem having originated in Scandinavia. No such 'gold period' ever existed in Britain." Essays, p. 147.

[723] Cottonian Gnomic Verses, ll. 26-7.

[724] l. 14.

[725] Exeter Gnomic Verses, l. 126.

[726] Baldwin Brown, III, 385, IV, 640.

[727] B. l. 19.

[728] l. 339.

[729] l. 991.