Note 2
XXX. BEOWULF NARRATES HIS ADVENTURES TO HIGELAC.
For ‘fæðmum,’ Gr.’s conjecture, B. proposes ‘færunga.’ These three half-verses would then read: She bore off the corpse of her foe suddenly under the mountain-torrent.
She the corpse had offcarried in the clutch of the foeman2
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