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Then the band of very valiant retainers Came to the current; they were clad all in armor,
{The coast-guard again.} 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 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-stemmed sailer: The mast uptowered o'er the treasure of Hrothgar.