Bad hire ðor hir wið heuod ben hid
= Bad hire ðor-wið hir heuod ben hid?
Bad her there-with her head to be hid,
(That is, she was to buy a veil for her head).
[1194] timing, good-fortune, happiness. See [note] to line 1180. [1195] bi-sewen, be seen. so in this line seems an unnecessary addition of the scribe's. [1197] wurd = wurð, became; on elde wac, in age weak (feeble). Woc = weak; the older form is wac. See Laȝ. ii. 24, 195, 411.
"Forr icc amm i me sellfenn wac,
& full off unntrummnesse."—(Orm. ii. 285.)
"Vor nout makeð hire woc but sunne one."
For nought maketh hir weak but sin only.