back to line 117 cf. 110. The text has adopted the emendation "anforht" for the MS "unforht". It is clear that the sense of the line makes the meaning "unafraid" of "unforht" in 110 impossible here. An intensive sense of "forht" is needed. Whether emendation is necessary is less certain and many editors have kept the MS reading arguing that the prefix "un-" occurs with this intensive sense elsewhere in OE (although the examples are few and tend to be unique examples of the words in question). "un-" can also have the sense of "bad", "worthless". Swanton comments that the word play involved in these two lines "is characteristic of the Dream poet".