Note † — II. THE FIGHT AT FINNSBURH:
Reading edition
ll. 850, 851. S. reads dēop for dēog and erases semicolon after wēol, = the death-stained deep welled with sword-gore; cf. l. 1424. B. reads dēað-fǣges dēop, etc., = the deep welled with the doomed one's gore.—Beit. xii. 89.