l. 336. "æl-, el-, kindred with Goth. aljis, other, e.g. in ælþéodig, elþéodig, foreign."—Cook's Sievers' Gram., p. 47.
l. 336. Cf. [l. 673] for the functions of an ombiht-þegn.
l. 343. Cf. [l. 1714] for the same beód-geneátas,—"the predecessor title to that of the Knights of the Table Round."—E. Cf. Andreas (K.), l. 2177.
l. 344. The future is sometimes expressed by willan + inf., generally with some idea of volition involved; cf. [ll. 351], [427], etc. Cf. the use of willan as principal vb. (with omitted inf.) at [ll. 318], [1372], [543], [1056]; and sculan, [ll. 1784], [2817].
l. 353. sîð here, and at [l. 501], probably means arrival. E. translates the former by visit, the latter by adventure.
l. 357. unhâr = hairless, bald (Gr., etc.).
l. 358. eode is only one of four or five preterits of gân (gongan, gangan, gengan), viz. geóng (gióng: [ll. 926], [2410], etc.), gang ([l. 1296], etc.), gengde ([ll. 1402], [1413]). Sievers, p. 217, apparently remarks that eode is "probably used only in prose." (?!). Cf. geng, Gen. ll. 626, 834; Exod. (Hunt) l. 102.
l. 367. The MS. and H.-So. read with Gr. and B. glädman Hrôðgâr, abandoning Thorkelin's glädnian. There is a glass. hilaris glädman.—Beit. xii. 84; same as gläd.
l. 369. dugan is a "preterit-present" verb, with new wk. preterit, like sculan, durran, magan, etc. For various inflections, see ll. [573], [590], [1822], [526]. Cf. do in "that will do"; doughty, etc.
l. 372. Cf. [l. 535] for a similar use; and [l. 1220]. Bede, Eccles. Hist., ed. Miller, uses the same expression several times. "Here, and in all other places where cniht occurs in this poem, it seems to carry that technical sense which it bore in the military hierarchy [of a noble youth placed out and learning the elements of the art of war in the service of a qualified warrior, to whom he is, in a military sense, a servant], before it bloomed out in the full sense of knight."—E.