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MORS.
Chap. XXXIX.
to return to Jutland on “ important family affairs.” On
his arrival he is asked after his two companions : “Here
they are,” he replied, exhibiting his two sticks. His
answer is received with shouts of derision, and they look
on him as mad as ever.
On his arrival at the palace of King Fengo, situated
on the lake hard by, he found the family in full carouse,
a wake subsequent to the celebration of his own funeral.
Disguised, he joins the party, drugs the liquor of the
carousers, and, when they are all intoxicated, first setting
fire to the house, rushes to the room where Fengo lay
asleep, awakening him with these words: “ Fengo ! your
good men are burning to ashes; and here is Amleth,
who will revenge the death of his father!” He then
slays him. One hundred and fifty years since Fengo’s
grave was opened and an iron sword taken from it; what
became of it none can tell.
Such, according to Saxo Grammaticus and the earlier
sagas, is the story of Amleth, Prince of Jutland;
he will again turn up later. A flock of sheep appear
out at sea. They have waded out to a little island
from Feggeklit and are caught by the waves. See, how
they stand up to their knees in the water, awaiting till
the tide permits them to return.
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