But a noble name | will never die,

If good renown one gets.

[a]78]. Cattle die, | and kinsmen die,

And so one dies one’s self;

One thing I know | that never dies,

The fame of a dead man’s deeds.

[79]. Certain is that | which is sought from runes,

That the gods so great have made,

And the Master-Poet painted;

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