226. #sweleð#, miswritten for swelgeð, swallows: the scribe was probably
led by ‘brinneð’ in the next line to think of the word which for him
represented #swǣlan#.
227, 228. #ðerof . . . of#: tautology is frequent in this piece: comp.
184/260. The impersonal use of #brinneð# appears to be without parallel:
the meaning is, that poisonous matter burns him afterwards.
230. ‘Estuat ad liquidas pergere fontis aquas,’ T.; estuat is glossed
festinat, hence #lepeð#; comp. Psal. xli. 1. #wið--list#, displaying
great prudence, wisdom: comp. ‘To the fischers hous þai went wiþ list,’
Gregorlegende, ed. Schulz, 52/1015.
232-238. ‘Quas cum forte bibit, his plenus toxica vincit, | Se
juvenemque facit, cornua quando jacit,’ T.