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Rh concord of kin as cousins together, after they routed the race of Wicings, laid prone the pride of the power of Ingeld, hewed down at Heorot the Heathobard line.

So I fared through many a foreign realm this wide earth o’er, as weal or ill came to my ken; of my kin bereft, far from my folk, I followed onward. Wherefore I can sing and say my tales, to men in the mead-hall make my lay, how high-born heroes heaped me gifts. I was with Huns and with Hrethan Goths, with Swedes and with Geats and with Southern Danes, with Wenlas and with Wærnas and with the Wicings, with Gefthas and with Winedas and with Geflegas, with Angles and with Sueves and with Ænenas, with Saxons and with Scygan and with the Swordmen, with Hronas and with Deanas and with Heatho-Reamas.