The King and the [Ætheling]; to their kinsmen’s home,
To the wide land of Wessex —warrior’s exultant.
60 To feast on the fallen on the field they left
The sallow-hued spoiler, the swarthy raven,
Horned of beak, and the hoary-backed
White-tailed eagle to eat of the carrion,
And the greedy goshawk, and that gray beast,
65 The wolf in the wood. Not worse was the slaughter
Ever on this island at any time,
Or more folk felled before this strife