so after swiulc is a true relative, as in the oldest period.
[635] gat = granted. It is the preterite of a verb gate, to grant.
"Fourti dais he sal [tham] yate
Þat fallen ar ute o þair state
Þoru foluing o þat fals prophet,
Þat þai mai þam wit penance bete."
—(Antichrist, in Jahrbuch für Romanische und Englische Literatur,
1863, p. 204, l. 428.)
gate or yate, pret. yatte, is the Northern form of the word, the corresponding southern term is ȝete, pret. ȝette.
"& ȝho ne wass nohht tær onnȝæn,