Five Pieces of Runic Poetry

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Five Pieces of Runic Poetry (1763)
translated by Thomas Percy

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4606660Five Pieces of Runic Poetry1763Thomas Percy

FIVE PIECES

OF

RUNIC POETRY

Translated from the

ISLANDIC LANGUAGE.

Egill’s Ode.
* * *

Regner’s Ode.

———Populi, quos despicit Arctos,
Felices errore suo, quos ille timorum
Maximus haud urget leti metus: inde ruendi
In ferrum mens prona viris, animæque capaces
Mortis; et ignavum roditura parcere vitæ.
Lucan.

LONDON:

Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-mall.

MD CC LXIII.

N. B. This little tract was drawn up for the press in the year 1761: but the publication has been delayed by an accident.

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