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The Collected Works of William Morris

With Introductions by his Daughter May Morris

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CHAPTER XL. OF GRETTIR AND SNŒKOLL.

[Songs extracted from the prose narrative.]


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[“There the shield that men doth save]

[Grettir.]
“There the shield that men doth save
Mighty spurn with foot I gave.
Snœkoll's throat it smote aright,
The fierce follower of the fight,
And by mighty dint of it
Were the tofts of tooth-hedge split;
The strong spear-walk's iron rim,
Tore a-down the jaws of him.”