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(1914) Author: Esaias Tegnér Translator: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Lewery Blackley
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FRITHIOF’S SAGA 107

But here, ’neath dearer silken folds,
Its place a fairy bosom holds.

"And, like the deep, clear, azure sky,
Beams lovely Frigga’s soft blue eye;
But I know eyes whose gentle ray
Eclipses spring-time’s brightest day.

"And shines fair Gerda’s cheek alone
Like sparkling snow ’neath northern sun?
I know of cheeks, whose ruddy glow
A double dawn appears to show.

"A loving heart I know of, too,
Like gentle Nanna’s, fond and true;
Full worthily, O Balder, we
Praise still, in song, her love for thee!

"Gladly in death would I be laid,
Lamented by a loving maid,
As faithful and as true as she,
Welcome were Hela’s home to me."

King Bele’s child, of daring deeds
Sate singing, while with busy threads
She wove a tapestry of war,
With groves, and fields, and waves afar.

Upon the snowy woollen field
Grew glories of a golden shield,
Blood-red appeared the lances thrown,
With silver all the breastplates shone.

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