Aloft shall uplift him at Whale-ness for ever,

That it the sea-goers sithence may hote

Beowulf's Howe, e'en they that the high-ships

Over the flood-mists drive from afar.

Did off from his halse then a ring was all golden,

The king the great-hearted, and gave to his thane,

To the spear-warrior young his war-helm gold-brindled,

The ring and the byrny, and bade him well brook them:

Thou art the end-leaving of all of our kindred,

The Wægmundings; Weird now hath swept all away