Deprived of their pleasure. All the proud ones have fallen,
80 The warriors by the wall: some war has borne off,
In its bloody embrace; some birds have carried
Over the high seas; to some the hoar wolf
Has dealt their death; some with dreary faces
By earls have been exiled in earth-caves to dwell:
85 So has wasted this world through the wisdom of God,
Till the proud one’s pleasure has perished utterly,
And the old [work of the giants] stands worthless and joyless.
He who the waste of this wall-stead wisely considers,