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 206 Moore given above, that of Holthausen's third and fourth editions is closest to the reading of the MS and at least as satisfactory in sense as any of the readings that depart farther from the MS. I believe, however, that a somewhat better interpretation of the transmitted text can be got by adopting the suggestion made years agti by Korner, 2, who cited as parallels to on sal meoto: hkgeaj) on ellen (Finnsburg 12) and hycgan on ellen (Exodus 218). To these we may add : ic on Se geare hycge (Psalms XC, 2), God ys on dryhten georne to penceanne (Psalms CXVII, 8), wat ic gearewe J>aet heo on unriht ealle pohtan (Psalms CXVIII, 118), and on lagu pence (Gebete IV, 97). 3 Adopting Korner's interpretation of 489b and punctuating the passage as it is printed at the beginning of this note, we may translate it as follows: "Sit now at the feast and think of good fortune" (or "prosperity"), "victory-renown to men." 4 No change of the MS reading is necessary, for if we retain the geni- tive plurals yldo in 70 (as Wulcker, Holder 1895, 1899, Wyatt, Trautmann, Holthausen 2, 3, 4, Schiicking, Sedgefield, and Chambers do) and medo in 1178 (as Holthausen 2, 3, 4 and 3 Wiilcker, Bibliothek der angelsdchsischen Poesie, II, 222. All of the Old English poetical texts except Beowulf that are referred to or quoted in these notes are cited according to Wiilcker's edition, but with the addition of marks of quantity. Prose texts are quoted as they are printed in the edition referred to. 4 Korner takes sige-hrefi as an appositive of sett, but his interpretation of the passage as a whole is not satisfactory, partly because of the difficulty he felt in dealing with secgum and partly because he took swd as meaning "so" rather than "as." After considering some other interpretations and rejecting them, he translates as follows: "doch nun lasse dich nieder zum schmause, und sei nur auf heiterkeit bedacht, auf den ruhm, der dir nebst deinen mannen aus diesem siege erwachsen wird, hierzu treibt dich wol auch dein inneres an oder, den conjunctiv in seiner ursprunglichen optativen bedeutung genommen, hierzu (nicht zum trubsinn) moge dich (auch) der trieb deines eigenen innern drangen" (p. 251). For the construction of secgum compare 936, 996, 1676.
 * Englische Studien, II, ^50 f.