Then the band of very valiant retainers Came to the current; they were clad all in armor, In link-woven burnies. The land-warder noticed The return of the earlmen, as he erstwhile had seen them; Nowise with insult he greeted the strangers From the naze 27 of the cliff, but rode on to meet them; Said the bright-armored visitors vesselward traveled Welcome to Weders. The wide-bosomed craft then Lay on the sand, laden with armor, With horses and jewels, the ring-stemmèd sailer: The mast uptowered o’er the treasure of Hrothgar. To the boat-ward a gold-bound brand he presented, That he was afterwards honored on the ale-bench more highly As the heirloom’s owner. Set he out on his vessel, To drive on the deep, Dane-country left he. Along by the mast then a sea-garment fluttered, A rope-fastened sail. The sea-boat resounded, The wind o’er the waters the wave-floater nowise Kept from its journey; the sea-goer traveled, The foamy-necked floated forth o’er the currents,