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A MANUAL

OF

SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY

A tale well worth to hear,
In mystic Runics writ;
Come, lend a listening ear
To theme for Sages fit:
Of many a legend old,
Told down from sire to sire,
The pregnant sense t' unfold
I strike my golden lyre.

Of th' Aser and the Giants,
Their long and fatal strife,
Of true-love's firm reliance,
Of Loke, with treasons rife,
Of Odin and Valhalla
I sing-of Thor the strong:
No subject light nor shallow,

Come, listen to my song!

OEHLENSCHLAGER'S NORDISKE CUDer.

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