The track of the loathly: his life-sundering nowise

Was deem'd for a sorrow to any of men there

Who gaz'd on the track of the gloryless wight;

How he all a-weary of mood thence awayward,

Brought to naught in the battle, to the mere of the nicors,

Now fey and forth-fleeing, his life-steps had flitted.

There all in the blood was the sea-brim a-welling,

The dread swing of the waves was washing all mingled

With hot blood; with the gore of the sword was it welling;

The death-doom'd had dyed it, sithence he unmerry