The fierce fray of foeman was oftentimes fram'd.

Kin of friends that mine were, there they awreaked

The feud and the evil deed, e'en as was famed;

Although he, the other, with his own life he bought it,

A cheaping full hard: unto Hæthcyn it was,

To the lord of the Geat-folk, a life-fateful war.

Learned I that the morrow one brother the other

With the bills' edges wreaked the death on the banesman,

Whereas Ongentheow is a-seeking of Eofor:

Glode the war-helm asunder, the aged of Scylfings