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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