Note † — II. THE FIGHT AT FINNSBURH:
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l. 1202. B. conjectures gecēas ēcne rǣd to mean he became a pious man and at death went to heaven. Heime (Hāma) in the Thidrekssaga goes into a cloister = to choose the better part (?). Cf. H.-So., p. 98. But cf. Hrōðgār's language to Beowulf, ll. 1760, 1761.