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The Sea-King

A metrical romance, in six cantos. With notes, historical and illustrative. By J. Stanyan Bigg
Bigg, J. Stanyan (1828-1865)
  
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THE SEA-KING.
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CANTO I. The Legend of Otlauga.
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CANTO II. The Scald.
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THE SCALD'S TALE.
  
THE SCALD'S TALE, continued.
  
The Valkyries' Chorus.
  
THE SCALD'S TALE concluded.
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CANTO III. The Legend of Ragnar Lodbrog.
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CANTO IV. The Tomb of Orvar.
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CANTO V. The Mysteries.
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CANTO VI. The Recognition.

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LXI.

Here ended then the old man's lengthened song,
And round him still was grouped, that listening throng.
But she, whom it had interested most,
Seemed in a maze of recollections lost.
Nor knew she that the wondrous tale was done,
Till the old man prepared to haste away:
And pointing to the rising orient sun,
He cried “lo! yonder mounts the source of day;
And ere two daily rounds he shall have run,
The finish of my tale ye all shall know,
Joy often ends what sorrow has begun;
As past events, and coming time will show.”
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