‘His old possessions seem paltry to him now.
He covets and resents; dishonors custom
and bestows no gold; and because of good things
that the Heavenly Powers gave him in the past
he ignores the shape of things to come.
Then finally the end arrives
when the body he was lent collapses and falls
prey to its death; ancestral possessions
and the goods he hoarded are inherited by another.’
– Beowulf, Seamus Heaney (trans.)
Lines 1748-1756: Hrothgar, speaking about Heremod, says you cannot take goods with you when you die, that someone else is going to inherit them.