Will work me the glory, or else shall death get me.

So after these words the Weder-Geats' chieftain

With might of heart hasten'd; nor for answer then would he

Aught tarry; the sea-welter straightway took hold on

The warrior of men: wore the while of a daytide

Or ever the ground-plain might he set eyes on.

Soon did she find, she who the flood-ring

Sword-ravening had held for an hundred of seasons,

Greedy and grim, that there one man of grooms

The abode of the alien-wights sought from above;