7. #walde#: for omission of gan, see 2/2.

9. #of him siker#, secure so far as he was concerned, fearing no danger

from him. #of his cume#: comp. 94/24.

10. #lei into#, appertained to, was subject to; comp. 143/72: a charter

expression: B-T quotes ‘ælc ðara landa ðe on mines fæder dæge læg into

Cristes cyrcean,’ Kemble, iv. 232/8: in modern dialect it means, to

border on.

11. #wedwulf#: ‘repentina rabie incitatus’: comp. ‘þe þurs Maxence, | þe

wed wulf, þe heaðene hund,’ SK 1858.

14. #Oleast#, at last, as a final resort: the prefix is _on_: comp. ‘a

last,’ Castel off Loue, 457, AR 18/15.

15. #tintreo#: comp. 144/98, 145/119. tintreohen B, tintrohen T. The

first form which occurs five times in R corresponds to OE. #tintrego#,

pl. of #tintreg#: the others to #tintregan#, pl. of #tintrega#.

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