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CHAPTER XXVII. THE SUIT FOR THE SLAYING OF THORGILS MAKSON.

[Songs extracted from the prose narrative.]


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[“Mighty strife the warrior made]

[Thormod.]
“Mighty strife the warrior made
When to earth was Makson laid,
Well the sword-shower wrought he there,
Flesh the ravens got to tear;
Then when Skuf and Biarni fell,
He was there the tale to tell;
Sea-steed's rider took his way
Through the thickest of the fray.”