186. Holthausen restores alliteration by substituting colde for winter.

187. #hule#, hut, shelter. Mätzner takes the former #ðat# as

demonstrative, and divides bi liuen, that is meat by which she can live,

quoting ‘mete quorbi ðei migten liuen,’ GE 573. More probably the former

ðat has displaced mide (comp. 191/503), then mete is the object of

tileð, procures.

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