“Us it beseems not | so to do,
To cleave with swords | the oaths we swore,
The oaths we swore | and all our vows.
[18]. “We know no mightier | men on earth
The while we four | o’er the folk hold sway,
And while the Hunnish | hero lives,
Nor higher kinship | the world doth hold.
[19]. “If sons we five | shall soon beget,
Great, methinks, | our race shall grow; [[427]]
Well I see | whence lead the ways;