1901

Deyr fé
deyja frændr,
deyr siálfr it sama;
en orðstírr
deyr aldrigi
hveim er sér góðan getr.

Hávamál, 75.

Cattle die,
kindred die,
we ourselves also die;
but the fair fame
never dies
of him who has earned it.

Thorpe's Edda.