[65] See Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, iv. pp. 164, 170.

[66] Jahrbuch für romanische und englische Sprache und Literatur, xiii. p. 111.

[67] This example is not very striking, as the spelling Ferumbras may simply have been retained from the first part of the poem; see above, p. xxxi.

[68] Syr Ferumbras, Introduction, p. xiv, footnote.

[69] See Handschriftliche Gestaltungen, p. 14, and Dissert., p. 29.

[70] Histoire Poétique, p. 157.

[71] And to which only a few very insignificant additions were made by the author; see Hist. Poét., p. 99, bottom.

[72] See Morris’s Preface to Genesis and Exodus, Skeat’s Introduction to Havelock the Dane, and Mall’s edition of Harrowing of Hell (Breslau, 1871).

[73] See Sweet, Anglia, iii. 152.

[74] Cf. Mall, Harrowing of Hell, p. 18.