John C. Pope and Stanley Greenfield have specifically debated the meaning of the word sylf (modern English: self, very, own),[REF] which appears in the first line of the poem [REF].
In Medium Ævum, 1957 and 1959, G. V. Smithers drew attention to the following points in connection with the word anfloga, which occurs in line 62b of the poem: 1.