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The Collected Works of William Morris

With Introductions by his Daughter May Morris

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CHAPTER XVI. OF THE SLAYING OF SKEGGI.

[Songs extracted from the prose narrative.]


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[Of the Slaying of Skeggi.]

“A rock-troll her weight did throw
At Skeggi's throat a while ago;
Over the battle-ogress ran
The red blood of the serving-man;
Her deadly iron mouth did gape
Above him, till clean out of shape
She tore his head and let out life:
And certainly I saw their strife.”