398
_And leded_ (ledeð) _samen gunker lif_.
And lead (pass) together your (two) lives.
_leded_ = _ledeð_, is a verb in the imperative mood; _gunker_, the A.S.
_incer_ (_dual_) = your two, of you two. Cf. _ȝunkerr baþre_ = of you
both.—(Orm. i. 214.)
408
_And sumdel quemeð it his seri mood_
And somewhat it cheereth his sorry mood.
411
_More for erneste dan [ðan] for gamen_,
More for necessity than for pleasure.
P. 13. l. 417 _al swilc sel_ = all such time.
420
_ðan he was of is broðer wold_,
When he was by his brother killed.
421, 422
_An hundred ger after is dead,
Adam fro eue in srifte abead._
A hundred years after his death,
Adam from Eve in shrift (penance) abode.
(_i. e._ on account of the death of Abel.)
"A hundred winter of his liue
fra þan forbar Adam his wiue,
for soru of Abel þat was slayn."—(Cursor Mundi, fol. 8.)
See Legends of the Holy Rood, pp. 20, 21.