[1-2]: The introductory formula of these lines is comparable to Vsp 1/1-4 and Þhorn Harkv 1/1-2I. It is also reminiscent of the introductory appeal to a listening audience in some late medieval romances; cf. the Middle English Octavian 1-3 (Mills 1973, 75): Lytyll and mykyll, olde and yonge, | Lystenyth now to my talkynge, | Of whome Y wyll yow [k]ythe; ‘Small and great, old and young, listen now to what I say, [and] about whom I will make known to you’.