- see Kemp Malone, “A Note on Beowulf 2466,” Journal of English and Germanic Philology, L (1951), 19–21.
- This function of i is an old feature of Northern English orthography. It arose in words such as seize, where the i, though early become silent, is there by etymological right. This length-marking i was extended to many other words, a few of which, such as gait, have retained it in conventional English spelling.
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