Note 2
XIX. BEOWULF RECEIVES FURTHER HONOR.
For ‘feorh’ S. suggests ‘feoh’: ‘corpse’ in the translation would then be changed to ‘possessions,’ ‘belongings.’ This is a better reading than one joining, in such intimate syntactical relations, things so unlike as ‘corpse’ and ‘jewels.’
The2 corpse of the king then came into charge of
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