Note † — II. THE FIGHT AT FINNSBURH:
Reading edition
l. 1279. The MS. has sunu þeod wrecan, which R. changes to sunu þēod-wrecan, þēod- = monstrous; but why not regard þēod as opposition to sunu, = her son, the prince? See Sweet's Reader, and Körner's discussion, Eng. Stud. i. 500.