Beowulf · J. Lesslie (John Lesslie) Hall translation

Note 5
XLI. THE MESSENGER’S RETROSPECT.

B. takes ‘nihtes’ and ‘hwílum’ (3045) as separate adverbial cases, and renders: Joy in the air had he of yore by night, etc. He thinks that the idea of vanished time ought to be expressed.

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Fifty of feet; came forth in the night-time5

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