291. #derke#: so too at 208/399: it seems hardly a mere scribal error
for derðe.
293. Mätzner thinks #he# is a mistake for we, but see the examples of
sudden transition from indirect to direct speech in Kellner, Syntax, 60.
296. Kölbing suggested the addition of non: Schumann would substitute
non for #no#, but the former gives a better verse. Mätzner reads, And ic
ne can, following Morris, who translates, And _I_ know no better plan.
Understand quan after And.
298. That there be wanting to the Egyptians none thereof; comp. ‘ne
nawiht ne wonteð ham | of al ꝥ ha wilneð,’ SK 1670.