it is an utterance of the minstrel deor , who , as he tells , has lost his place and been supplanted in his lord 's favour by another bard , named heorrenda ; in the body of the poem deor draws examples from among the great misfortunes recounted in the heroic legends , and is comforted by them , concluding each allusion with the fixed refrain paes ofereode ; pisses swa maeg , which has been variously translated ; my father held that it meant 'time has passed since then , this too can pass ' .