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FRITHIOFS INHERITANCE
Now in their graves had been set King Bele and Thorsten
the aged,
Where they themselves had desired; uprose on each side of
the deep bay
Mounds high arched, like breasts that the valley of death
separated.
Helge and Halfdan together, by old traditional usage,
Ruled in the house of their sire; but Frithiof shared his
with no one,
And as an only son possessed the dwelling at Framnas.
Three leagues forth was his rule, on three sides round him
extended,
Valley and mountain and wood; and the sea was the fourth
of his mearings.
Birch forest crowned the tops of the hills, and where they
descended
Waved fields of rye as tall as a man, and golden-eared
barley.
Many a fair smooth lake held a mirror of light to the
mountains,
Picturing forth the forests, where elks with towering
antlers
Stalked with the gait of kings, and drank from rivulets
countless.
And in the valleys around, far pastured abroad o’er the
meadows,
Herds with glittering hides, and udders that yearned for the
milking.
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