l. 986. Miller (Anglia, xii. 3) corrects to æghwylene, in apposition to fingras.
l. 987. hand-sporu. See Anglia, vii. 176, for a discussion of the intrusion of u into the nom. of n-stems.
l. 988. Cf. [ll. 2121], [2414], for similar use of unheóru = ungeheuer.
l. 992. B. suggests heátimbred for hâten, and gefrätwon for -od; Kl., hroden (Beit. ix. 189).
l. 995, 996. Gold-embroidered tapestries seem to be meant by web = aurifrisium.
l. 997. After þâra þe = of those that, the depend, vb. often takes sg. for pl.; cf. [ll. 844], [1462], [2384], [2736].—Sw.; Dietrich.
l. 998. "Metathesis of l takes place in seld for setl, bold for botl," etc.—Cook's Sievers' Gram., p. 96. Cf. Eng. proper names, Bootle, Battlefield, etc.—Skeat, Principles, i. 250.
l. 1000. heorras: cf. Chaucer, Prol. (ed. Morris) l. 550:
"Ther was no dore that he nolde heve of harre."
ll. 1005-1007. See Zachers Zeitschr. iii. 391, and Beit. xii. 368, for R.'s and B.'s views of this difficult passage.