Of Edom so it was named then,
For it was before called Bozra.
1906 _deden un-red_ = committed sin; _unred_, want of wisdom, miscounsel,
folly, wickedness. (See Owl and Nightingale, 161.)
"For _unræd_ is swiðe ræh (rash)."—(Laȝ. i. 278.)
1910 _Brictest of waspene_ (_wasteme_), brightest of form; _witter wune_ =
skillwise, skilful, of good abilities. 1912 _vn-hillen & baren_, discover
and lay bare (disclose); _vnhillen_ = O.E. _unhelen_. (See Surtees, Ps.
xxviii. 9.)
1914 _wel-ðewed_, well conducted, well behaved.
1915
_for-ði wexem wið gret nið_;
unless _wexem_ = _wex hem_, we should perhaps read,
_for-ði he wexen wið gret nið_,
Wherefore they increased in great envy (jealousy).
_wið_ = in. 1919 _soren_ = _shorn_ = reaped. _Shear_ is still an E.Anglian
term for to reap.
"And I sal say til men _scherande_,
Gaderes the darnel first in bande,
And brennes it opon the land,
And _scheres_ sithen the corn rathe,
And bringes it unto my lathe."
—(Met. Hom. p. 146.)
1920 _here_ = theirs. Cf. _ure_ = ours. 1923 _hu mai ðis sen_, how may this
appear (be seen). 1928 _siðe_ = _siðen_ = afterwards. 1934 In Dothan he
found them come. _sogt_ = sought = come, arrived? 1935 _fro feren_ = from
afar.
P. 56. l. 1942 _ðisternesse_ = _cisternesse_ = cistern. (See l. 1960.)
Cistern occurs in the Middle High German Book of Genesis and Exodus, ed.
Diemer, p. 75.
"Nu sehet ze dem trômære, er bringet nivmare
Slahen wir den selben hunt,
Werfen in in der _zisterne_ grunt."
1942-4
In this pit, old and deep,
Yet shall he be cast, naked and cold,
What-so(ever) his dreams may signify.
1943 _wurðe_ = _wurð e_ = _wurð he_ (?) = he shall be. 1950 _derne sped_ =
secret haste. I should prefer _derue sped_ = _derfe sped_, bold (wicked)
haste. 1952 _spices ware_ = _spices-ware_ = spicery. 1958 Than he should
there die in their power. 1961 _ðhogte swem_ = appeared grieved = was
sorrowful.
1962-3
Believed him to be slain, set up a cry
He will not cease, such sorrow he endured.
1962 _rem_, cry, outcry.
"ðanne _remen_ he alle a _rem_,
so hornes blast oðer belles drem (noise)."
—(O.E. Miscell., p. 21.)
1967-8
In kid's blood they turned it,
Then was there-on a piteous stain.
1968 _lit_ = stain.
"Ah wið se swiðe lufsume leores
Ha leien, se rudie
& se reade _i-litet_ (coloured)
eauereach leor
as lilie i-leid to rose,
Þæt nawhit ne þuhte hit
Þæt ha weren deade."—(St. Kath. l. 1432.)
"Saide Laverd of Basan torne, torne sal I,
In depnesse of þe se for-þi;
Þat þi fote be _lited_ in blode o lim,
Þe tunge of þi hundes fra faas of him."—(Ps. lxvii. 24.)