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compares this Dantesque tarn and scenery with the
poetical
accounts
of _AEneid_, vii.
Beowulf
Cf.
sele-rǣdende at l.
51.
l.
1351.
"The ge [of gewitan] may be merely a scribal error,--a repetition
(dittography) of the preceding ge of gewislīcost.
"--Sw.
l.
1352.
ides, like fīras, _men_, etc.
, is a poetic word supposed by Grimm
to have been applied, like Gr.
νύμφη, to superhuman or semi-divine women.
ll.
1360-1495 _seq.
_ E.
compares this Dantesque tarn and scenery with the
poetical
accounts
of _AEneid_, vii.
563; _Lucretius_, vi.
739, etc.
l.
1360.
firgenstrēam occurs also in the _Phoenix_ (Bright, p.
168) l.
100;
_Andreas_, ll.
779, 3144 (K.
); _Gnomic Verses_, l.
47, etc.
l.
1363.
The genitive is often thus used to denote measure = by or in
miles; cf.
l.
3043; and contrast with partitive gen.
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