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. èste for ēacen . . . oftost, omitting
brackets (_Zackers Zeitschr. _ iv. 206). G. translates _mighty . . . often_.

l. 1675. ondrǣdan.
"In late texts the final n of the preposition on is
frequently lost when it occurs in a compound word or stereotyped phrase,
and the prefix then appears as a: abútan, amang, aweg, aright,
adr'ǣdan. "--Cook's Sievers' Gram. , p. 98.

ll. 1680-1682. Giants and their work are also referred to at ll. 113, 455,
1563, 1691, etc.

l. 1680. Cf. ceastra . . . orðanc enta geweorc, _Gnomic Verses_, l. 2;
Sweet's Reader, p.