Met of corn, and wigte of fe,
Measure of corn, and weight of goods.
The only objection against explaining fe by goods or money is that in the poem it signifies cattle, the proper term for goods, etc., being agte. In Laȝamon fe, however, has the meaning of goods, money.
And merke of felde, first fond he,
And he first devised division (boundary) of fields (lands).
[444] at ðe sexte kne = at the sixth degree. Kne in this sense is used by Robert of Gloucester, p. 228:—"He come of Woden þe olde louerd, as in teþe kne" (i. e. tenth generation). [450] On engleis tale = in English speech.
P. 14. l. [451] kire, modesty, purity. See Laȝ. l. 8077. K. Horn, l. 1446.