The blent-hair'd, the hoary one, driven to biding,

So that the folk-king fain must he take

Sole doom of Eofor. Him in his wrath then

Wulf the Wonreding reach'd with his weapon,

So that from the stroke sprang the war-sweat in streams

Forth from under his hair; yet naught fearsome was he,

The aged, the Scylfing, but paid aback rathely

With chaffer that worse was that war-crash of slaughter,

Sithence the folk-king turned him thither;

And nowise might the brisk one that son was of Wonred