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heaved it in heaps ; 



■where erewhile many a baron 



joyous and jewelled 



with elaborate splendour, 



haughty and hot with wine, 



shone in his harness ; 



looked on treasures of silver 



and of curious gems, 



and wealth and stores 



and precious stones, 



on this bright borough 



of broad dominion. 



There stood arcades of stone ; 



the stream hotly issued 



with eddies widening 



up to the wall encircling all 



the bright bosomed pool ; 



there the baths were — 



hot with inward heat : 



nature's bounty that ! 



So they caused to flow 



[into a sea of] stone 



the hot streams 



* * « • » 



that ring-mere hot 



gebrocen to beorgum; 



]}seT iu beom monig 



glsedmod and goldbeorht 



gleoma gefratwed 



wlonc and wingal 



wighyrstum scan; 



seah on sine on sylfor 



on searo gimmas : 



on ead, on seht, 



on eorcan stan : 



on f;as beorhtan burg 

 bradan rices. 

 Stan hofu stodan ; 

 stream hate wearp 

 widan wylme 

 weal eal befeng 

 beorhtan bosme ; 

 fjser Jja" batSu wseron, 

 hat on hreiSre : 

 Jijet waes hySelio! 

 leton })onne geotan 



stan 



hate streamas 



)5aet bring mere hat 



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72 



76 



84 



baths were 



baSu wffiron 



that is kingly thing . . . |.at is cyneHc ),ing . . 



Now the feature of this poem which provokes the thought 

 o^^^^^^tAc^tio^^ is the mention, twice repeated , 



83. hat on hre«re. Literally, hot in heart ; that is to say, hot in itself, in 

 Its own nature, not a recipient but a source of heat. As to the construction : 

 hut belongs to stream in Hue 78. For the sense compare Beowulf 6290, where 

 the fire which consumes the funeral pile is said to be hat on hre^re. In 

 Cajdmon u, 99, dragons are described as hate on reSre, which Grein 1 v 

 has well rendered ignivomi, fire-breathing. The expression is pecuHar, and 

 has not been much noticed, but it is of importance here. 



84. Literally, that was convenient, gratuitous-that was bountiful ! But 

 the spint of the passage is something Hke that which I have endeavoured to 

 express m the trans ation. It is the sort of exclamation that would be caUed 

 forth by the spread of a table in the wilderness. That was a bounteous 

 provision mdeed, and untoiled for. 



