Sweet's 1894 "An Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse" ends the poem at line 108, not 124. In their 1918 "Old English Poems", Faust and Thompson note that before line 65, "this is one of the finest specimens of Anglo-Saxon poetry" but after line 65, "a very tedious homily that must surely be a later addition". Their translation ends with "My soul unceasingly to sail o’er the whale-path / Over the waves of the sea", with a note below "at this point the dull homiletic passage begins. Much of it is quite untranslatable." A number of subsequent translators, and previous ones such as Pound in 1911, have based their interpretations of the poem on this belief, and this trend in early Old English studies to separate the poem into two parts — secular and religious — continues to affect scholarship.