Note † — II. THE FIGHT AT FINNSBURH:
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l. 2022. Food of specific sorts is rarely, if at all, mentioned in the poem. Drink, on the other hand, occurs in its primitive varieties,—ale (as here: ealu-wǣg), mead, beer, wine, līð (cider? Goth. leiþus, Prov. Ger. leit- in leit-haus, ale-house), etc.