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FRITHIOF’S SAGA 107
Thanks for thy bidding, well’t was intended; would that
some kindness
I, in my turn, could offer, but my wealth lies in the ocean;
Haply to-morrow from me thou may’st find some gift by
the sea-side."
Next day Viking stood by the sea, and lo! as an osprey
Flieth, quarry-pursuing, a ship sailed into the haven;
No man upon it appeared; no pilot could be discovered;
Yet it steered its winding way through breakers and
quicksands,
Like as if spirit-possessed; and when it entered the
haven,
Reefed were the sails by themselves, untouched by hand
of a mortal;
Down sank the anchor itself, and clung with its fluke to
the bottom.
Dumb stood Viking, and gazed; then sang the glad
heaving billows—
" Aegir, protected, forgetteth no debt, and hath sent thee
this dragon."
Kingly, indeed, was the gift; the bended planking of
oak-wood,
Not, as in others, joined, was by one growth banded
together;
Far spread her lengthy keel; her crest, like a serpent of
ocean,
High in the bows she reared; her jaws were flaming with
red gold.
Sprinkled with yellow on blue was her beam; astern, at
the rudder,
Flapped she around her powerful tail, that glittered with
silver;
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