is in the library of Blickling Hall, Norfolk); and he called attention to a passage (at p.

209) where the homilist was obviously referring to the lonely mere of the old poem, in which its overhanging groves were described as being _hrimige_, which is nothing but the true old spelling of _rimy_.

He naturally concluded that the word _hrinde_ (in the MS.

of Beowulf) was miswritten, and that the scribe had inadvertently put down _hrinde_ instead of _hrimge_, which is a legitimate contraction of _hrimige_.
Many scholars accepted this solution; but a further light was yet to come, viz.

in 1904.