(b) He set out on long journeys, and became the most celebrated traveller that man ever heard of (se wæs wreccena wide mærost ofer wer-theóde—str. 1800-1802).
(c) He performed great exploits (str. 1804).
(d) He was endowed with powers beyond all other men (str. 3438-39).
(e) God gave him a higher position of power than that accorded to mortals (str. 3436, &c.).
(f) But although he was reared at the court of the Danish king, this did not turn out to the advantage of the Skjoldungs, but was a damage to them (str. 3422, &c.), for there grew a bloodthirsty heart in his breast.
(g) When the Danish king died (the poem does not say how) he left young sons.
(h) Hermod, betrayed by evil passions that got the better of him, was the cause of the ruin of the Skjoldungs, and of a terrible plague among the Danes, whose fallen warriors for his sake covered the battlefields. His table-companions at the Danish court he consigned to death in a fit of anger (str. 3426, &c.).
(i) The war continues a very long time (str. 1815, &c., str. 3447).
(k) At last there came a change, which was unfavourable to Hermod, whose superiority in martial power decreased (str. 1806).