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Rh We have heard from many of Hild’s disgrace, how heroes of Geat were homeless made till sorrow stole their sleep away. That they surmounted: so this may I!

Theodric waited for thirty winters in Merings’ burg: to many ’twas known. That he surmounted: so this may I!

We have often heard of Eormanric, his wolfish mind; wide was his rule o’er realm of Goths: a grim king he! Sat many a subject sorrow-bound, waiting but woe, and wished full sore that the time of the king might come to end. That they surmounted: so this may I!

Sitteth one sorrowful, severed from joys; all’s dark in his soul; he deems for him endless ever the anguish-time! Yet let him think that through this world