Note † — II. THE FIGHT AT FINNSBURH:
Reading edition
l. 545 seq. "Five nights Beowulf and Breca kept together, not swimming, but sailing in open boats (to swim the seas is to sail the seas), then storm drove them asunder ... Breca is afterwards chief of the Brondings, a tribe mentioned in Wīdsíth. The story seems legendary, not mythical."—Br., pp. 60, 61.