The folk of the Geats and the Gar-Danes withal,

In common shall peace be, and strife rest appeased

And the hatreds the doleful which erst they have dreed;

Shall become, whiles I wield it, this wide realm of ours,

Treasures common to either folk: many a one other

With good things shall greet o'er the bath of the gannet;

And the ring'd bark withal over sea shall be bringing

The gifts and love-tokens. The twain folks I know

Toward foeman toward friend fast-fashion'd together,

In every way blameless as in the old wise.