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The text appears to be that of Grein-Wülker (1883).

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There at haven stood, hung with rings the ship,

Ice-bright, for the outpath eager, craft of Aethelings.

So their lord, the well-beloved, all at length they laid

In the bosom of the bark, him the bracelet-giver,—

By the mast the mighty king. Many gifts were there

Fretted things of fairness brought from far-off ways.—

Never heard I of a keel hung more comelily about