74. #fridæi#: OE. #frige-dæg#, the day of Freya, identified with Venus.

75. #sætterdæi# corresponds to OFrisian saterdei, OE. #Sæterdei#:

#sateresdei# O to OE. #sæteresdæg#. The fullest form is #Sæternes dæg# =

Sāturni dies (? Sǣ; see Anglia, Beiblatt, xx. 194). #þene# should be

#þere#. #sonedæi#: OE. #sunnan-dæg#; perhaps OWScand. sunnudagr has

influenced the ME. form.

76. #monedæi#: OFrisian mōnedei. #tisdæi#: OWScand. týsdagr: OE.

#tīwes-dæg#. #Tidea# is said in the glossary to Specimens to be a

Latinized form of Tiw in the _dat._ case, without support from any

parallel and without explanation of _d_: probably it is a mistake for

Tiwe, and as O has Tydea, the mistake would be derived from an earlier

MS. common to both.

81. #wurse#, the evil one, the devil; comp. 110/291; ‘þat he wið þene

wurse spæc,’ L 2841 where O has ‘feonde.’

82. #nohtes#, of a worthless kind: a descriptive genitive used

predicatively: comp. ‘eower godas ne synd nahtes,’ Ælf. Lives, i.

182/205; ‘ne beoð ha riht nohtes,’ SJ 22/10: it is in principle the same

as ‘ðæt fleax ðæt bið hwites hiewes,’ Cura Past. 86/19.

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