(i. e. on account of the death of Abel.)
"A hundred winter of his liue
fra þan forbar Adam his wiue,
for soru of Abel þat was slayn."—(Cursor Mundi, fol. 8.)
See Legends of the Holy Rood, pp. 20, 21.
[431] and wurð ut-lage = and became an outlaw.
wið dead him stood hinke and age.
Of death he stood in dread and fear.
hinke = inke, doubt, dread. See [note] on l. 392.