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j FRITHIOF’S SAGA 93
Hollow and deep (like those of Vala dread,
In Vegtamsquida, when to Odin singing
Of Hela’s triumph, and the Asen’s fall),
Thus spake he gloomy:—"Banishment or death
I might denounce by our ancestral laws
Against thy sin; but I will show me mild
As Balder is, whose holiness thou ’st slighted.
In western ocean doth a cluster lie
Of islands, where Jarl Angantyr bears sway:
A stated yearly tribute paid the Jarl
While Bele lived, but never since his death.
Cross thou the sea, and fetch that tribute back
So may thy service for thy sin atone."
Then in mean scorn he added—"Hard of hand,
They say, he is; and, like the dragon Fafner,
He watcheth o’er his gold; but who can stand
Against our second Sigurd, Fafner’s bane ?
This shall a worthier adventure prove
Than maidens to beguile in Balder’s grove.
Next summer let us see thee homeward wend
With all thy glory, and thy treasure, too:
Else shalt thou be a knave in Northmen’s eyes;
And all thy lifetime peaceless in the land."
Such was his speech; and so the Ting dispersed.
ingeborg
And now thy purpose?
FRITHIOF
Have I aught to choose?
Hangeth my honor not on his demand?
And I must free it—ay, if Angantyr
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