Note 1 — THE TRANSLATIONS OF BEOWULF
Reading edition
See Wyatt’s text, lines 51, 158, 250, 255, 599, &c.
2. See article in the Dictionary of National Biography.
3. See infra, pp. 56 ff.
4. bound up, onband, now generally translated ‘unbind.’
5. blame, belēan, rather ‘dissuade’ than ‘blame.’
6. with the waves of the deep, &c., geofon-yþu weol wintrys wylm, so Kemble reads in his text, and for this reading the translation is correct, but he failed to discern the kenning to ‘geofon’ in ‘wintrys wylm.’
7. See supra on Turner, p. 9; Thorkelin, p. 15; Grundtvig, p. 22; Conybeare, p. 28.
8. See infra, p. 49.