Note 757 — Chapter XII · HEATHENDOM. (continued 2)

I do not know whether the expression Hine Wyrd gecéas, can be found in Saxon poetry; but ceósan is a very common word in phrases denoting death, though by Christian poets transferred to the doomed hero, from the god or goddess: ǽr ðon forðcure, wintrum wæl reste. Cædm. p. 99. “Priusquam annis [i. e. vita] praetulerit mortiferam quietem.”