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nearest to him. They defended the coasts
of their countrymen, and the pious women;
they fetched wheat and honey from England,
they went to the White Sea for sables and
furs – their adventures are related in song.
We see the old man ride in rich clothing,
with gloves sewn with golden thread, and
with a hat brought from Garderige; we see
the youth with a golden fillet around his brow;
we see him at the Thing; we see him in
battle and in play, where the best is he that
can cut off the other’s eyebrows without
scratching the skin, or causing a wink with the
eyes, on pain of losing his station. The
woman sits in the log-house at her loom,
and in the late moonlight nights the spirits
of the fallen come and sit down around
the fire, where they shake the wet,
dripping clothes; but the serf sleeps in the ashes,
and on the kitchen bench, and dreams that
he dips his bread in the fat soup, and licks
his fingers.
Thou future poet, thou wilt call forth the
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