| A. |
182. ill buckled corruptly for the auld baucheld
of C 26 (baucheld = down at the heels). |
| B. |
23. hind.
35. snakes o Leveland den;
and snakes o Levelanden, C 46.
I have not found snake, for
ship, in late English, but the A. S. snacc =
Icelandic snekkja, a fast ship, may well
have come down. For Leve London see
E 98.
114. We should perhaps read As make; cf.
A 144, D 84. |
| C. |
46. black snakes o Levelanden. |
| D. |
After 2.
"A long, long gap, that I have got
nobody to fill up. I learned it from my
mother, but she has quite forgotten it."
91. whar he.
133. Remark: "Not let land here either."
173. to yon, or you.
O is added at the end of every second line. |
| E. |
68. sich and.
93. shater. Cf. B 36,
C 46, where the texts
have snakes (corrected here to snake). The
writer of E had begun the word with something
different from sh, but with what I
cannot make out.
114. feear.
141. when or wher. |
