44, is a description of two mysterious monsters, of whom it is said that "they inhabit unvisited land, wolf-crags, windy bluffs, the dread fen-track, where the mountain waterfall amid precipitous gloom vanisheth beneath--flood under earth.

Not far hence it is, reckoning by miles, that the Mere standeth, and over it hang rimy groves; a wood with clenched roots overshrouds the water." The word to be noted here is the word _rimy_, i.e.covered with rime or hoar-frost.

The original Anglo-Saxon text has the form _hrinde_, the meaning of which was long doubtful.

Grein, the great German scholar, writing in 1864, acknowledged that he did not know what was intended, and it was not till 1880 that light was first thrown upon the passage.

In that year Dr Morris edited, for the first time, some Anglo-Saxon homilies (commonly known as the _Blickling Homilies_, because the MS.