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54
ARNLJOT GELLINE
Sprang to his feet and kindled a fire,
Twigs and branches and fire-wood gathered,
Set them aflame!
Apace spread the fire, fanned by the draught,
Flames blazed up, by the wind swept forward,
Curling and licking, the smoke-clouds rolled
In the cavern,
Backwards the beasts slunk, howling and screeching,
In the cavern,
None of them daring to lie near the entrance.
Escape cut off by the wall behind them,
Crawled they over each other’s bodies,
Until those lying under
Bit those above them.
Wolves and lynxes, bears and foxes,
Plunged in a welter of blood and smoke,
Struggled and howled,
Until in the throes of death convulsive,
Lay they with teeth in each other fastened.
He who without
Stood, cleansed by the storm, lashed by the tempest,
Lingered long.
When the last yelps of revenge bloodthirsty
To growls were subdued in the blazing pyre,
Turned he about,
Set his gaze on the fog-banks dripping,
Down on the swollen, clay-gray torrent,
Up to the scudding cloud-drift,
Then set’he forth;
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