Note 2
XXXVII. THE FATAL STRUGGLE.—BEOWULF’S LAST MOMENTS.
‘Þæt þæt fýr’ (2702), S. emends to ‘þá þæt fýr’ = when the fire began to grow less intense afterward. This emendation relieves the passage of a plethora of conjunctive þæt’s.
Gleaming and plated, that ’gan then the fire2
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