so spoke the wanderer - mindfull of hardships and of cruel slaughters each dawn - i rise alone - mired in ancient sorrows wretched and deprived of my native land i have my mind bound with fetter for many years i lay hidden in the concealment of earth buried deep in stone from there - i went abject and winter grieving over the surface of waves i sought the prison of my noble kinsman sorrow is a cruel companion to the one who can afford few friends and the path of exile attends this mournfull spirit and so this world - everyday is crumbling and falling the rulers lie dead - deprived of revelry bands of warriors lie fallen proud by the wall war destroyed some - carried them away a sorrowfull man hid one deep within a grave thus the creator of men laid waste - this dwelling place until the old works of giants stood vacant without the noise of their inhabitants the kingdom of earth is full of miseries and the decree of hate shall change the course of the heavens