[156]. himm lokenn, keep watch over himself: see 4/20, 78/85.
[158]. stannt . . . inn: see [114/67 note].
[165]. flocc, company: a favourite word of the author’s: comp. 113/49, ‘þe laþe gastess flocc,’ O. i. 226/6546; ‘summ hæþene flocc,’ id. 344/9875.
[167]. modiȝleȝȝc, with same meaning as modiȝnesse, l. 165, but with Scand. suffix, leikr, leiki in Icel. forming abstracts. There are a good many instances in the MS. of -nesse corrected into -leȝȝc. greditleȝȝc: so MS., but the correct form is grediȝleȝȝc, as elsewhere in Orm.
[170]. hewe, form, appearance.
[173]. hefennlike: ‘Angeli corpora in quibus hominibus apparent, in superno aëre sumunt solidamque speciem ex coelesti elemento inducunt, per quam humanis obtutibus manifestius demonstrentur,’ Bede, viii. 294. f. 95 v ends with kinde, l. 174 is added on the margin, and the two leaves following are missing.
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111. ... ‘writen uppo boc
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