7. #deu#: Holthausen suggests fen, mud, restoring the alliteration;
comp. 195/630. #he#, the hunter.
8. #driueð dun#, hastens down; comp. ‘se ferliche ha driuen dun to þe
eorðe,’ HM 21/20, ‘driue adun swireforð,’ id. 23/32; with ‘ðeðen,’
187/364. #bergen#: Holthausen conjectures dernen, which is apparently
not used in ME. of living things: possibly dennen should be read as in
l. 25; the writer is fond of such repetitions. There is nothing in T.
corresponding to this line.
10-13. ‘Natus non vigilat dum sol se tercio girat | Sed dans rugitum
pater ejus suscitat illum,’ T.