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112.

l. 3183. Z. , K. , Th. read manna for mannum.

l. 3184. "It is the English ideal of a hero as it was conceived by an
Englishman some twelve hundred years ago. "--Br. , p. 18.


NOTES TO THE FIGHT AT FINNSBURG.

The original MS.
of this fragment has vanished, but a copy had been made
and printed by Hickes in his _Thesaurus Linguarum Septentrionalium_, i.
192. The original was written on a single sheet attached to a codex of
homilies in the Lambeth Library. Möller, _Alteng. Epos_, p. 65, places the
fragment in the Finn episode, between ll. 1146 and 1147. Bugge (_Beit. _
xii. 20) makes it illustrate the conflict in which Hnæf fell, _i. e. _ as
described in _Bēowulf_ as antecedent to the events there given. Heinzel
(_Anzeiger f. d. Altert. _), however, calls attention to the fact that
Hengest in the fragment is called cyning, whereas in _Bēowulf_, l.