St. 60
p. 25, l. 688. Cf. Eglam., l. 324:
‘And to [the] herte hym bare.’
The weak preterit tense of berien is very rare; if bere = A.S. beran sometimes has the same meaning, i.e. ‘to strike,’ the reason is that A.S. beran and Icel. berja are confounded.