103. shalt.
H.
3, 4. The stubborn lord in 33 is the wife’s father, and the race, or family, is stubborn according to 10. Stubborn folk think opposers stubborn, no doubt; still the epithet is unlikely in 43. Lad I suppose to refer to the man who in the other versions stabs from behind.
53. dern for den. The nine men must be dead, as in E 11, F 9, G 6. The well armd belongs to an earlier (lost) stanza, corresponding to E 5, F 3, G 2.
I. Variations in Buchan’s printed copy:
11. Ten lords. The lords in my copy of the MS., but, as Dixon has also Ten, I presume The to be an error. Otherwise I should have read Th[re]e, as in B, C, D.
42. As aft he’d.
74. thrust him thro body and mell, O.
83. mother to. 144. ower his.
J.