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



Who joy in maiden’s vows can take,
I’ll hew him down for mercy’s sake;
And spare him the grief one day to be
Forsaken, disgraced, and betray’d like me."

"How fiercely boileth youthful blood!"
The aged Hilding said: " ’Twere good
That snows of eld should cool its heat.—
Much wrongest thou the noble maid:
My foster-daughter cease to chide,
But blame what none can turn aside,—
The rage of the Nornes, whose weapons smite
The sons of earth from the stormy height.
True! Ingborg’s sorrowing few men heard.
Like silent Vidar, she spake no word:
But she grieved and pined, as in southern shade
The love-lorn turtle-dove mourns its mate.
With me alone her grief she would share,
To me her measureless woe declare.
As with stricken breast the sea-mew diveth
To deepest ocean, and only striveth
To hide her wound from the sight of day,
And deep-laid, bleedeth her life away:
So in silence deep sank her sorrow down:
To me only the grief that she bore is known.

"1 For Bele’s kingdom,’ full oft she said,
’A sacrifice must I be made;
And garlands of snowdrops and evergreen
Shall deck the land’s peace-offering.
Oh! I could die, but’t were fate too mild,

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