This song is from the very first verse of the Anglo
Saxon poem from the Exeter Book's The Wanderer. It is a
fantastic poem of old English and part of it is what
JRR Tolkien based his "where is the horse and the
rider" bit. Theoden says it in the movies. Here's a
link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzx6d5h-5Mg
Check out the rest of the poem here:
http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=text&id=
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