Note 65 — PREFACE. (continued 2)
Reading edition
In the MS. the Capital letter is prefixed to the next line.
66 MS. hauen. Cf. ll. 1868, 2528. Only an assonance, not a rime, seems intended.
67 MS. berƿen, the A.S. w being used here. Cf. l. 697.
68 MS. yif.
69 A folio has here been cut out of the MS., containing 180 lines. The missing portion must have been to this effect. “To this they gladly assented; and Havelok, accompanied by his wife Goldeborw and the sons of Grim, set sail for Denmark. Disembarking, they travel till they reach the castle of a great Danish earl, named Ubbe, who had formerly been a close friend to king Birkabeyn. Havelok begs that he will allow him to live in that part of the country, and to gain a livelihood by trading.”