[Footnote 37: line 2695b. I follow most of the editors in taking _hyrde_ as _family_ and _frean_ as an appositive with _fæder_.]

[Footnote 38: line 2747b. Whatever the precise form of emendation to be adopted, this is certainly the sense of the word and passage.]

Genesis A — Part 45

[Footnote 39: line 2805. A passage is missing here, in the MS.]

Genesis A — Part 45

[Footnote 40: line 2810b. A hemistich is missing here, metrically.]

Genesis A — Part 45

[Footnote 41: line 2899a. This word (_stowe_) is Dietrich's obviously correct emendation.]

[Footnote 42: line 2934a. Grein's emendation, _sælða_ = _prosperity_, helps the metre but not the sense. I do not adopt it.]

[Footnote 43: line 2935. In the MS., _Genesis_ ends here and _Exodus_ follows at once; as 28 Chapters of the Biblical Genesis are passed over, it seems probable that several pages in the MS. of the poem have been lost or were not transcribed.]

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