is used in indirect narration and question, wish
and command, purpose, result, and
hypothetical
comparison with swelce = _as
if_.
Beowulf
Cf. "old fellow," "my old man," etc.; and Ger. _alt-vater_.
l. 378. Th. and B. propose Gēatum, as presents from the Danish to the
Geatish king.--_Beit._ xii.
l. 380. hæbbe. The subj.
is used in indirect narration and question, wish
and command, purpose, result, and
hypothetical
comparison with swelce = _as
if_.
ll. 386, 387. Ten Br. emends to read: "Hurry, bid the kinsman-throng go
into the hall together."
l. 387. sibbe-gedriht, for Beowulf's friends, occurs also at l. 730. It is
subject-acc. to sēon. Cf. ll. 347, 365, and Hunt's _Exod._ l. 214.
