reads dēop for dēog and erases
semicolon
after wēol, =
_the death-stained deep welled with sword-gore_; cf.
Beowulf
178; March, _A.-S. Gram._, p. 182.
l. 811. myrðe. E. translates _in wanton mood_. Toller-Bosw. does not
recognize _sorrow_ as one of the meanings of this word.
ll. 850, 851. S.
reads dēop for dēog and erases
semicolon
after wēol, =
_the death-stained deep welled with sword-gore_; cf.
l. 1424. B. reads
dēað-fǣges dēop, etc., = _the deep welled with the doomed one's
gore_.--_Beit._ xii. 89.
l. 857. The meaning of blaneum is partly explained by fealwe mēaras below,
l. 866. Cf. Layamon's "and leop on his _blancke" = steed_, l. 23900; Kent's
_Elene_, l.
