Of Edom so it was named then,

For it was before called Bozra.

[1906] deden un-red = committed sin; unred, want of wisdom, miscounsel, folly, wickedness. (See Owl and Nightingale, 161.)

"For unræd is swiðe ræh (rash)."—(Laȝ. i. 278.)

[1910] Brictest of waspene (wasteme), brightest of form; witter wune = skillwise, skilful, of good abilities. [1912] vn-hillen & baren, discover and lay bare (disclose); vnhillen = O.E. unhelen. (See Surtees, Ps. xxviii. 9.)

[1914] wel-ðewed, well conducted, well behaved.

[1915]

for-ði wexem wið gret nið;

unless wexem = wex hem, we should perhaps read,

for-ði he wexen wið gret nið,