158. #stannt . . . inn#: see 114/67 note.

165. #flocc#, company: a favourite word of the author’s: comp. 113/49,

‘þe laþe gastess flocc,’ O. i. 226/6546; ‘summ hæþene flocc,’ id.

344/9875.

167. #modiȝleȝȝc#, with same meaning as modiȝnesse, l. 165, but with

Scand. suffix, leikr, leiki in Icel. forming abstracts. There are a good

many instances in the MS. of -nesse corrected into -leȝȝc.

#greditleȝȝc#: so MS., but the correct form is grediȝleȝȝc, as elsewhere

in Orm.

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