The Functions of Old English Geweorftan 261 peh pe Romane hafde geworden hwene ar, pat he on Asiam feran sceolde, Oros. 208.28. (pa gewearfi pat pridde gewinn Romano, ond Cartaina, =ter- tium Punicum bellum exortum est), ond geweard pa senatos him betweonum, gif hie mon priddan sipe oferwunne, pat mon ealle (Cartaina, C) towurpe, Oros. 210.14 ( = cum senatus delendam Carthaginem censuisset). Da gewearfi usic, pat we woldon swa / Drihten adrifan, Sat. 256. pa geweard pone weregan . . . pat he costode cyning alwihta, Sat. 669. fia geweard hine 'Sat he gecierde inn to dam scr&fe ond wolde him Bar gan to feltune, Cur. Past. 197.14. Sweet's rendering "then it happened" is inadmissible. Hu mag pam geweorfian . . . pat he pone stan nime / wiff hungres hleo, hlafes ne gime . . . ? El. 611; 'how is it possible that he should decide (choose) to take the stone?' Weymouth's (and Holt's) translation, "How can (shall) it be with him . . ." fails to do justice to the context. The dative pam may well be attributed to analogy. Hwi geweard inc swa pat gyt dorston fandian Codes? JElfr. Horn. I 316.33 ( = Act. V 9: quid utinam convenit vobis tentare Spiritum Domini?); cf. 316.22: hi cwadon him betweo- nan, pat hi woldon . . . , 23:namon fia to rade, pat ... So in the Lambeth MS. (Morris, Old English Homilies I 93.4): hwi iweard hinc 28 swa pet git dursten fondian Codes? Thorpe and Morris take the clause in the sense of "why have ye (two) so done . . . ?" e) With genitive of the thing, generally in the form of the (proleptic) pas, and ^/-clause. pa ft as monige gewearff, /pat hine seo brimwylf abroten hafde, Beow. 1598; well explained by Hubbard: "many agreed in thinking ..." ha/aft pas geworden wine Scyldinga / . . . ond pat rad talad, / pat he mid $y wife . . . sacca gesette, Beow. 2026; 'the friend of the Scyldings has made up his mind as to that (decided on the policy) . . . ' ; gesette should be understood as optative of the present (not as the preterite). Shipley's version
28 Strangely misprinted hine in the New English Dictionary
