Note † — II. THE FIGHT AT FINNSBURH:
Reading edition
l. 1611. wæl-rāpas = water-ropes = bands of frost (l. 1610) (?). Possibly the Prov. Eng. weele, whirlpool. Cf. wǣl, gurges, Wright, Voc., Gnom. Verses, l. 39.—E.
Reading edition
l. 1611. wæl-rāpas = water-ropes = bands of frost (l. 1610) (?). Possibly the Prov. Eng. weele, whirlpool. Cf. wǣl, gurges, Wright, Voc., Gnom. Verses, l. 39.—E.