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... Sigurd and Brynhild on Hindfell : From his hand then draweth Sigurd Andvari's ancient gold ; There is nought but the sky above them as the ring together they hold , The shapen ancient token , that hath no change nor end , No change ...
... Sigurd and Brynhild on Hindfell : From his hand then draweth Sigurd Andvari's ancient gold ; There is nought but the sky above them as the ring together they hold , The shapen ancient token , that hath no change nor end , No change ...
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... Sigurd and Brynhild to the tremendous climax of the third book . But the narrator will not stop there ; he goes on remorselessly till the sin of Sigurd's killing is washed out by the blood that flowed in the hall of Atli ; and Gudrun ...
... Sigurd and Brynhild to the tremendous climax of the third book . But the narrator will not stop there ; he goes on remorselessly till the sin of Sigurd's killing is washed out by the blood that flowed in the hall of Atli ; and Gudrun ...
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... Sigurd is powerless . The mists are low on the hills , and we have often to strain our eyes to catch the outlines of things through the storm wrack ; but now and again the clouds break , and under the rainbow arch in the sudden sun ...
... Sigurd is powerless . The mists are low on the hills , and we have often to strain our eyes to catch the outlines of things through the storm wrack ; but now and again the clouds break , and under the rainbow arch in the sudden sun ...
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