hun-frame = unframe, loss, disadvantage. [556] deres kin = animals.

P. 17. l. [560] grið, protection, safety.

"he wuneden (dwelt) seoððen (afterwards) here

inne griðe and inne friðe (peace)."—(Laȝ. ii. 50.)

"Lauerd, lauerd, ȝef (give) me grið."—(Ibid. iii. 35.)

Cf. greth, quarter (Sir Cleges, 292). grith-bruch, breach of the peace (Owl and Nightingale, 1043). grith-sergeant (Havelok, 267). [561] feteles, a vessel, a fat or vat.

"þe firrste fetless wass

Brerdfull off waterr filledd."—(Orm. ii. 148.)

"Sex feteles of stan war thar stan[d]and,

Als than was cumand in the land