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The old Perfect of fleón (fugere) was fleáh; we find our new form in p. 96.

Amaleckes folc fledde for agte of dead.

In page 12, we read that Adam and Eve were ‘don ut of Paradise’ (ejecti sunt). This must be the phrase which suggested our modern phrase for cheating. The verb do has undergone some degradation.

There are many Scandinavian words found here.

Busk, bush	Buskr, Icelandic
Dream, somnium[1]	Draumr, Icelandic
Glint	Glânta, Swedish
Levin, lightening	Lygne, Norse
Muck	Mykr, Icelandic
Ransack	Ransaka, Norse
Rapen, to hurry, rap out	Rapa, Norse
Rospen, rasp	Raspa, Swedish
Skie[2]	Sky, cloud, Norse
Tidy	Tidig, Swedish
Tine, lose	Tína, Norse
Ugly	Ugga, frighten, Norse

We find the word irk for the first time; it is akin to the German erken (fastidire).

Of manna he ben forhirked to eten. — Page 104.

We see in page 35, ‘hem gan ðat water laken’ (the water began to fail them). This new word for deesse is akin to the Dutch laecke (defect). In page 26, we

1. The Old English dream only meant sonus or gaudium, and is soused in the Bestiary.
2. This as yet only means in English a cloud, and this sense of the word lasted till Chaucer's time. Til skyia in Norse means ‘upin the sky.’ Twenty years after the present poem's date sky stoodfor aer in Yorkshire.