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feohlēas
gefeoht, "a homicide which cannot be atoned for by
money--in this case an unintentional fratricide.
Beowulf
In
each case all but one desert the hero.
l.
2437.
R.
proposes stȳred, = _ordered, decreed_, for strēd.
--_Zachers
Zeitschr.
_ iii.
409.
l.
2439.
B.
corrects to frēo-wine = _noble friend_, asking, "How can
Herebeald be called Hæðcyn's frēa-wine [MS.
], _lord?
_"
l.
2442.
feohlēas
gefeoht, "a homicide which cannot be atoned for by
money--in this case an unintentional fratricide.
"--Sw.
l.
2445.
See Ha.
, pp.
82, 83, for a discussion of ll.
2445-2463.
Cf.
G.
, p.
75.
l.
2447.
MS.
reads wrece, justified by B.
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