Note 499 — Chapter V · THE DANISH CONQUEST OF ENGLAND.[464] 975–1016.
Reading edition
So I understand the lines,
“Wende þæs for-moni man
Þa he on meare rád,
On wlancan þam wicge,
Þæt wære hit ure hlaford.” (p. 138.)
Compare the flight of the French serving-boys on their masters’ horses at the approach of Chandos in 1369. Froissart, c. cclxxvii. (i. 383, 384); Longman, Edward III. ii. 167.