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

by R. W. Chambers

[860] Cf. Beowulf, ll. 815 etc.

[861] Cf. Beowulf, ll. 1516-17; cf. Grettis Saga, LXVI.

[862] Cf. Grettis Saga, LXVI, hann kveikti ljós; cf. Beowulf, 1570.

[863] Contes du roi Cambrinus, par C. Deulin, Paris, 1874 (I. L'intrépide Gayant). The story is associated with Gayant, the traditional hero of Douai.

[864] Cf. Schmidt, Geschichte der deutschen Stämme, II, 495, 499, note 4.

[865] III, 1.

[866] II, 43.

[867] Παῖς ... νέος ἦν κομιδῇ, καὶ ἔτι ὑπὸ παιδοκόμῳ τιθηνούμενος, Agathias, I, 4: parvulus, Gregory, IV, 6.

[868] Gregory, III, 20.

[869] III, 22.