39. #þær--scalt#, where thou must remain. H. quotes ‘Nu me þe bringæð
þer ðu beon scealt,’ from the Oxford Frag. (The Grave) 5, and for 40
(which is repeated in Frag. E 8) ‘Dureleas is þet hus,’ id. 13.
41-3. B. explains, There worms dispose of all that was most prized by
thee, birds friendly to Death, all that thou didst formerly delight with
all kind (reading _kunde_) of sweetness, which thou didst dearly love.
But to call worms birds friendly to Death, is a flight of imagination
beyond our writer’s power, and the suggested arrangement of the two
halves of 41, 42 is artificial, though not without parallel. A
comparison of ‘Heo wulleþ freten þin fule hold,’ Frag. C 41; ‘Ac þu heo
(i.e. the earth) afulest mid þine fule holde,’ Frag. E 5; ‘Aweilewei þu
fule hold,’ OEH ii. 183/15, suggests here _fulest alre holde_, foulest
of all bodies. The meaning is then easy and straightforward. His body
was what the dead man had most prized and pleasured, ‘For þin wombe was
þin god,’ Frag. D 36; ‘þine þermes, þeo þe deore weren,’ Frag. C 47.
43. #[þære]#. The staff of the first letter has survived in the MS.; it
goes below the line.
44, 45 are repeated with small variation in Frag. D 40, 41. For #fornon#
see 3/8 note. With the rhyme of 45, comp. ‘Beornen [þer e]fre · ende nis
þer nefre,’ Frag. E 49.
_Cross-References_
3/8, 4/19 (notes) = I. C (Worcester Fragments)
42/231 (note) = VIII. (Poema Morale)
_Errata_
#Literature:# ... (3) ... *Batiouchkof, Th., Romania, xx. 236;
[Th. Romania]
[_the passage cited as xx. 236 is actually xx. 1 and 513_]
Bruce, J. D., Modern Language Notes
[Languages Notes]
#ā# is normally ... #œ̄# is _eo_ in weoþinde 2/10. (OE. #wœ̄þan#).
[_text has “weoþinde,” and “wœ̄þan”_]
#ea# ... _å_-umlaut of #e# is _eo_ in freome, feole, weolen
(Bülbring, § 234); _u_- and _å_-umlaut of #i# is _eo_
[_first “å-umlaut” misprinted as bold instead of italic;
second misprinted as “a-umlaut”_]
... The prefix #ge# is represented by _i_.
[_#ge# misprinted as italic instead of bold_]
The consonants ... _k_ is written mostly before _e_ and _ie_
[_“k” misprinted as plain (non-italic)_]
#Accidence.# ... Neuters as ban 2/21 are uninflected, _pl. g._ has
-e, _d._, -en [-e, _d_, -en]
... The def. art. is _s. n._ þe- þeo- þat, _d. m._ þen,
_a._ þene- þeo- þat, _pl. n._ þeo- þa -þa, þeo, þe.
[_all hyphens printed as shown_]
The terminations of the verb ... _part. pt._ -ed, d, t
[_“-ed, d, t” misprinted as italic_]
[IB.]
30. ... ‘Postremo redimens elemosinis
[_form “elemosinis” for expected “eleemosinis” is in the
source text_]
... Hauréau, Notices, ii. 183/9. [Haureau]
32. ... M. L. Review, V. p. 105 [M.L.]
[IC.]
26. #þæne#. B. takes _þære_ of the MS. as _gen. sing._ [_pære_]
33. ... and contrast ‘[Nol]de he nefre þærof [[Nol] de]
35. ... as B. translates, ‘bist du verloren
[_#b#ist with anomalous bold #b#_]
37. ... For #unwurþ# see 26/258. [#unwurp#]