That she hadde had a shipe hirself allone.'
The tradition is old. In the splendid tenth-century Bodleian MS. Junius 11, which contains the so-called Caedmon poems, a picture of the Ark shows Noah's wife standing at the foot of the gangway, and one of her sons trying to persuade her to come in.
370. Yei is defensible; cp. l. 353. Þe 'the' has been suggested.
383. Wat Wynk: an alliterative nick-name like Nicholl Nedy in l. 405.
400. emong: OE. gemang, here rimes as in Modern English with u (OE. iung: tunge: lungen), cp. note to VI 109 ff.; but in ll. 244-7 it rimes with lang: fang: gang—all with original a.
417. <floodis>. Some such word is missing in the MS. Cp. ll. 454 f. and 426.
461. How: MS. Now. The correction is due to Professor Child. Initial capitals are peculiarly liable to be miscopied.
463. grufe: a Northern and Scottish form of the verb grow. The sb. ro 'rest' 237 sometimes has a parallel form rufe.
525. stold: for stalled 'fixed'. Note the rime words, which all have alternative forms behald: bald: wald.