Latin confusion

[Robert Spenger]

Just to muddy the waters a bit, I have just run across another version
of the song. That one has that middle line  as: Et sus eia. In two
other versions, the E and the sus eia are in two separate lines of
music and there is a dash following the E, which seems to imply that it
should be Esus. However, in of those two versions, the words are
repeated as text, below the musical notation, and in this text portion,
the middle line is in three separate words: E sus eia. The other does
not have the words as text - as can be seen in:

http://doph.chez.tiscali.fr/stchants.htm

Does anyone have any comments?

regards,

Bob Spenger
rspengeraearthlink.net