119 _birðheltre_, fruit tree, from _birðel_, fruitbearing. Adjectives in
_-el_, _-ol_, are not uncommon in O.E. See O.E. Hom. 2 S. p. 131.
Cp. "ðare bwys bowys all for _byrtht_."
Their boughs bend all for fruit.—(Wyntown, i. p. 14.)
124-5 _fodme_. When we find, as on p. 2, l. 43, _ðrosing_ for _ðrosim_, we
must not be surprised at learning that _fodme_ is an error for _fodinge_,
production; A.S. _fadung_, dispensation, order, production, from _fadian_,
_gefadian_, to dispose, order, produce. "Hwæt is se Sunu? He is þæs Fæder
Wisdom, and his Word, and his Miht, þurh þone se Fæder gesceop ealle þing
and _gefadode_."—(Ælfric—"De Fide Catholica"—Thorpe's Analecta, p. 65.) "An
Scyppend is ealra þinga, gesewenlicra and ungesewenlicra; and we sceolon on
hine gelyfan, forþon þe hé is soð God and ána Aelmihtig, seðe næfre ne
ongann ne anginn næfde, ac hé sylf is anginn, and hé eallum gesceaftum
anginn and ordfruman forgeaf, þaet hí beon mihton, and þæt hí hæfdon agen
gecynd, swa swa hit þære godcundlican _fadunge_ gelicode."—(Ibid, p. 63.)