Note † — II. THE FIGHT AT FINNSBURH:
Reading edition
l. 2158. ǣrest is possibly the verbal subs. from ārīsan, to arise, = arising, origin. R. suggested ǣrist, arising, origin. Cf. Bede, Eccles. Hist., ed. Miller, where the word is spelt as above, but = (as usual) resurrection. See Sweet, Reader, p. 211; E.-Plummer's Chronicle, p. 302, etc. The MS. has est. See Ha., p. 73; S., Beit. x. 222; and cf. l. 2166.