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l. 151. nime. Gr. 49. .
l. 166. ofslaeenne. Gr. 46. 5.
l. 176. eweor?an. Gr. 47.
l. 180. wolde. Gr. 45. 5.
l. 191. bon. Gr. 48. .
l. 1. ?s mn word. Gr. 43. 8.
l. 16. weorpe. Gr. 49. .
l. 22. p sprungenre sunnan. Gr. 41. 2.
l. 32. hine, reflexive, Gr. 19.
l. 40. t forbaernenne. We see here how out of the active 'in order to burn it' may be developed the passive 'in order that it may be burnt,' as in the modern E. 'a house to let.' Compare Gr. 50. 4, .
l. 52. on hiera fatu. Compare l. 137.
l. 86. ?aet. Gr. 21.
l. 90. suna, dative, 'for his son.'
l. 4. him betwonan. Gr. 51. 5.
l. 17. for ?m ... for ?m ?e, correlative, the first demonstrative, the second relative.
l. 51. haefde ... t, took ... for.
l. 52. Gode t lce. Gr. 40. .
l. 57. mn e, objective genitive, 'the fear of me.'
mre, neut. 'a greater thing,' 'something more important.'
l. 81. mre. Cp. l. 57.
l. 82. wre. Gr. 49. .
l. 135. mile, adverb.
l. 137. wre. Gr, 49. .
l. 156. t handum. Cp. l. 122 above.
l. 174. r enam. Gr. 46. 6.
l. 202. wite. Compare Gr. 48. and 49. .
From AElfric's translation of the Book of Judges in Thwaites' Heptateuch.
l. 41. sw sw he belocenu wron, locked as they were.
ufeweardum ?m cnolle. Gr. 43. 2.
l. 46. waes, consisted.
l. 74. Dagon ehten. Compare l. 35. swelce, 'on the ground that'--'because .'
l. 81. hton. Compare l. 106.
e?odu, languages as the test of nationality. It is believed that Latin was still spoken as a living language by the Romanized Britons at the time of the venerable Bede , from whose Church History this section was taken by the compilers of the Chronicle.
l. 6. Scithie, Scythia.
l. 8. Nor?ibernie, North of Ireland.
l. 24. hr, at this date--at this place in the series of entries which constitute the Chronicle.
l. 28. Ypwinesflot has not been identified; some say Ebbsfleet.
l. 45. AEles?rep, Aylesthorpe, a village near Aylesford.
l. 49. Cranford, Crayford.
l. 52. The diction of this passage, with its alliteration and simile, shows that it is taken from some old poem.
l. 61. h?ne mnn, Danes.
l. 62. mid Defena-sre, literally 'together with Devonshire,' that is 'with a force of Devonshire men.'
l. 65. Sandwc, Sandwich.
l. 71. S?rie, Surrey.
l. 73. cla, Ockley.
Humbrem?a, mouth of the Humber.
l. 84. inne wurdon, got in.
l. 76. wre, subj. Gr. 48. .
l. 176. sw ?aet does not denote result here, but is explanatory--'namely by being bound....'
l. 178. he, reflexive.
l. 179. ?aes ... h, correlative.
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