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THE

DYING ODE

OF

REGNER LODBROG.

WE fought with swords: *** when in Gothland I slew an enormous serpent: my reward was the beauteous Thora. Thence I was deemed a man: they called me Lodbrog from that slaughter. *** I thrust the monster through with my spear, with the steel productive of splendid rewards.

We fought with swords: I was very young, when towards the East, in the straights of Eirar, we gained rivers of