In that year, Dr Joseph Wright printed the fifth volume of the _English Dialect Dictionary_, showing that in the dialects of Scotland, Northumberland, Durham, and Yorkshire, the word for "hoarfrost" is not _rime_, but _rind_, with a derived adjective _rindy_, which has the same sense as _rimy_.

At the same time, he called attention yet once more to the passage in _Beowulf_.

It is established, accordingly, that the suspected mistake in the MS.

is no mistake at all; that the form _hrinde_ is correct, being a contraction of _hrindge_ or _hrindige_, plural of the adjective _hrindig_, which is preserved in our dialects, in the form _rindy_, to this very day.
In direct contradiction of a common popular error that regards our dialectal forms as being, for the most part, "corrupt," it will be found by experience that they are remarkably conservative and antique..