Note † — II. THE FIGHT AT FINNSBURH:
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ll. 1115-1120. R. proposes (hēt þā ...) bānfatu bærnan ond on bǣl dōn, earme on eaxe = to place the arms in the ashes, reading gūðrēc = battle-reek, for -rinc (Zachers Zeitschr. iii. 395). B., Sarrazin (Beit. xi. 530), Lichtenfeld (Haupts Zeitschr. xvi. 330), C., etc., propose various emendations. See H.-So., p. 97, and Beit. viii. 568. For gùðrinc āstāh, cf. Old Norse, stiga á bál, "ascend the bale-fire."