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FRITHIOF’S SAGA 154
frithiof
Bjorn, glad and honest as Frey is thy thought:
Thou art prudent in counsel, and fearless in war;
Well hast thou learnt to know Odin and Thor,
But Freya, the heavenly, knowest thou not.
Shun to think scorn of the holy Queen’s power,
Beware, lest the rage of the goddess thou wake;
To gods and to men, soon or late, comes the hour
When her smouldering spark into fierce flame must break.
bj&rn
Yet go not alone. They make take thee in thrall.
frithiof
Alone go I not, my sword followeth me.
bjorn
Remember how Hagbart was hung on a tree.
frithiof
He, who lets any take him, deserveth to fall.
bjorn
Oh! brother, fall’st thou, I ’11 avenge thee full well:
Over FrithioPs bones the blood-eagle I ’11 tear.
frithiof
It needeth not, Bjorn. For my foeman shall ne’er
Hear a cock crow again when I perish. Farewell.
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