Most daring and doughty of the dwellers on earth,
35 [The son of Guthlaf]; and scores fell with him.
O’er the corpses hovered the hungry raven,
Swarthy and sallow-brown. A sword-gleam blazed
As though all Finnsburg in flames were burning.
Never heard I of heroes more hardy in war,
40 Of sixty who strove more strongly or bravely,
Of swains who repaid their sweet mead better
Than his loyal liegemen to their loved Hnæf.
Five days they fought, but there fell not a one