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“Right onwards through the forest wide
“To yonder oakwood high!
“Fast by the path is a sacred rock,
“A rock to the gods right dear;
“There pay thy offerings to the gods,
“Who rescued thee from fear,
“For victory that’s past and gone,
“For victory that’s near!
“Or ere the sun in onward course
“Ascends the heaven’s height,
“Thou wilt be there arriv’d, and ere
“A second step and a third he takes
“O’er the tall tree-tops in sight,
“The armies too will have arriv’d
“Where smoky columns high
“From the victim rise into the skies,
“And the warriors will bend, as on they wend,
“In meek humility.”

And Voimir springs on a gallant steed,
And swift, as a stag, doth fly
On through the forest to the rock,
That stands in the oakwood high;
And on the summit of the rock,
The rock to the gods right dear,