Note 2
XXXIX. THE DEAD FOES.—WIGLAF’S BITTER TAUNTS.
Some critics, H. himself in earlier editions, put the clause, ‘When … him’ (A.-S. ‘þá … beget’) with the following sentence; that is, they make it dependent upon ‘þorfte’ (2875) instead of upon ‘forwurpe’ (2873).
When battle o’ertook him.2 The troop-king no need had
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