Chapter I: Sentences

Line 2. s[=e]. Gr. 21. 1.

this sind. Gr. 45. 2.

l. 6. s[e,]lth. Gr. 45. 5.

l. 7. s[=e]o aelmesse. Gr. 44. 3.

l. 12. [.g]eworhte. Gr. 46. (3).

l. 16. hiera. Gr. 41. 3.

n[=ae]fre ... ne ... n[=a]nes. Gr. 52. 2. _ne waes_ is usually contracted into _naes_; the full form is used here because the _waes_ is emphatic.

l. 17. h[=e]t ofsl[=e]an. Gr. 50. 4.

l. 23. Aethelred cyning. Gr. 42. 6.

l. 24. Aesces-d[=u]n, _sf._ Ashdown, literally 'hill (or down) of the ashtree.'

l. 27. wile here denotes _repetition_, = 'is in the habit of.' Cp. l. 52.

l. 28. thonne is correlative with _gif_ (l. 26), Gr. 52. 3.

l. 37. aelmihtiga. Gr. 43. (4).

l. 43. [=e]ower se heofonlica Faeder. This insertion of the definite article between a possessive pronoun and an adjective is frequent.

l. 50. b[=e]o. Gr. 48. (6).

l. 52. t[=o], for.

l. 56. tw[e,]nti[.g] wintra. Gr. 18.

l. 58. D[=e]ofol. Gr. 44. 1.

l. 60. scortan. Gr. 43. (2).

l. 61. fisca. Gr. 41. 3.

l. 63. p[=ae]m, those.

hider on land, lit. hither on to land, = to this land.

l. 74. bl[=e]tsian. The older form of this word is _bledsian_. It is a derivative of _bl[=o]d_, like _r[=i][.c]sian_ from _r[=i][.c]e_, with mutation of the root vowel. Its original meaning was to 'sprinkle with blood,' and hence, in heathen times, to 'consecrate,' especially to consecrate an altar by sprinkling it with the blood of the victim.

l. 80. godspell. The original form of this word was probably _g[=o]dspell_ = 'good tidings,' a literal translation of the Greek _euaggelion_. {92} Afterwards the first vowel was shortened before the following consonant-group, or else _god_ was directly substituted for _g[=o]d_, as giving a more evident meaning, the result being that the word was taken in the sense of 'God's tidings.' In this form it was adopted into Icelandic (gudhspiall) and Old High German (gotespel), having been introduced by the Old English missionaries.

bith. Gr. 45. 5.

l. 82. h[=i]e. Gr. 19.

l. 89. him on [=ae]lce healfe, lit. 'to (for) themselves on each side,' = on every side (of themselves).

l. 92. rihtne. Gr. 42. 5.

l. 93. Aethelwulf-ing. Gr. 38.

l. 101. fare [.g][=e]. Gr. 22. 7.

l. 106. fors[=a]won. A plural verb after a singular noun of multitude is common in O. E., as in other languages.

l. 107. [.g]if se blinda blindne l[=ae]tt. _[.g]if_ here takes the indic., instead of the subj. (Gr. 48. 6), because the case is not assumed to be unreal. So also in V. 13, where the opposition (withst[e,]nt) is assumed as certain, and VI. 19.

l. 114. cw[=ae]de. Gr. 48. (5).

l. 118. mae[.g]e. Compare Gr. 47. (B. 1).

l. 119. s[=i]e. Gr. 47. (A).

l. 120. Scotland is here used in its older sense of 'Ireland.' Compare the first extract from the Chronicle, p. 79 below.

l. 121. his. Gr. 41. 3.

l. 123. healden. Gr. 48. (2).

l. 124. w[=ae]re. Gr. 47. (B. 1).

l. 132. s[=e] the. Gr. 21.

l. 135. thaet. Gr. 21; 52. 3.

l. 137. on [=e]are. Gr. 51. 2.

l. 138. [.g]ew[e,]ndon him, lit. 'they went for-themselves'; a reflexive pronoun in the dative, Gr. 40. (1), is often added to verbs of motion.

l. 139. d[=o] [.g][=e]. Gr. 22.

l. 142. gr[=e]te. Compare Gr. 49. (8).

l. 145. swelce, adverb, 'as it were.'

l. 151. nime. Gr. 49. (7).

l. 161. c[=o]me. Compare _mae[.g]e_, l. 118 above.

l. 166. ofslae[.g]enne. Gr. 46. 5.

l. 176. [.g]eweorthan. Gr. 47. (B. 1.)

l. 180. wolde. Gr. 45. 5.

l. 191. b[=e]on. Gr. 48. (2). {93}