With heathens and with heroes and with the Hundings.
Named Entities
hæþen: Various editors believe this to be the word 'heathen' as below is the word 'hero', but Malone argues in the spirit of Lappenberg 1838, that these are the inhabitants of the Norwegian region called Hedemark (tgn 7003643, http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7003643) (Malone 159). I am currently adopting the 'heathens and heroes' reading but am open to changing my mind.
hæleþ: I had interpreted this on my read-through as 'heroes' but Malone and some other writers identify this with the inhabitants of the Halla heret in Jordebog of King Valdemar II of Denmark. Lappenberg 1838 and Grein read it as Hæreþum, identifying the tribe with the Charudes of classical antiquity (all in Malone 157). Mackie and Dobbie keep the MS reading and take it as the dpn 'hæleþ' or hero, which I am adopting for the time being. I will copy this note into my log.